SHIKARPUR, Feb 5: Sindh minister for population welfare Imtiaz Shaikh has vowed to fight for the restoration of usurped rights of the province.

Talking to this correspondent on Thursday, he said differences with the Sindh chief minister were developed when the chief minister ignored important issues of the province and did not extend cooperation to the coalition partners in providing basic amenities to the people.

Mr Shaikh alleged he was not provided development funds for which he and his MPA friends had made commitment to the voters during elections.

He said the chief minister also failed to redress grievances of the people in their constituencies while the People's Party Parliamentarians MPAs were provided more funds to carry out development works.

The minister said they reached agreement in the presence of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and Muslim League-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and 18 other MPAs.

He claimed that the chief minister had assured that problems of the people would be solved. He said two committees, comprising Chief Minister Ali Mohammad Mahar, Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh, Arbab Ghulam Raheem, and Sardar Ahmed, were constituted to implement the decisions.

Altaf unnar: Sindh Revenue Minister Altaf Unnar has denied having differences with the chief minister, saying such rumours have been spread by vested interests.

He was talking to journalists at an Eid Milan party arranged by Sindh Population Welfare Minister Imtiaz Ahmad Shaikh and at the Shaikh Farm here on Wednesday.

Mr Unnar, however, said he earlier had some petty misunderstandings about the chief minister but the same had been removed.

Answering a question about unemployment in Sindh, he said the Sindh government was formulating policies to provide jobs to youths in government departments and added the ban on recruitment would soon be lifted.