SUKKUR, July 7: President, PPP (Ladies Wing), Sindh, Yasmeen Shah, has rejected the proposed constitutional amendments regarding the condition of party election.
She maintained that the move to put bars on the political parties at the eleventh hour was only meant to create problems for the largest political organization of the country and to pave way for government-sponsored parties.
She was addressing women workers of the PPP in Sukkur, Khairpur, Ghotki, and Ubaro on Sunday.
She was on a wild-wind tour of upper Sindh in connection with reorganizing the party and making arrangements for the ARD Convention at Sukkur on July 10.
The arrangements for the meeting were in full swing despite the government not having given permission to the leaders of the PPP.
Miss Yasmeen Shah, while speaking on the constitutional package, said if the package was implemented then prime ministers like Mohammed Khan Junejo were likely to come into power.
She said we can foresee that the future prime minister will be an oppressed person.
She said the constitutional amendments are being introduced to stop Benazir and Nawaz Sharif, which has proved now that the government through an executive order announced that twice-elected prime ministers and chief ministers would not be re-elected and stand disqualified for these offices.
She said that the government was conspiring to change the majority into a minority so that President Pervez Musharraf could remain de facto President forever.
She severely criticized the role of Governor Mohammedmian Soomro who had probably decided to make Sindh a separate country as his move of inducting more ministers defied the claim of President Musharraf who sought the resignation of Umar Asghar Khan for being interested in contesting the poll.
She alleged like President Musharraf, who has grabbed power in the centre, Sindh seems to have been occupied by Mr Soomro who has introduced laws other than those of the president.
She said that fair and free elections were only possible if they were held under a retired chief justice.
DACOITS INJURE TWO: A passenger was injured when dacoits opened fire on a wagon on the Sukkur-Larkana road, near the Jamali gate, on Saturday night. The dacoits also injured a motorcyclist when he refused to hand over his motorcycle. They then snatched his motorcycle.
BODY RECOVERED: The Daharki police recovered the body of a thirty-year-old woman, Wasti, from the Allah Warayo Malik village, near Daharki, the other day.
Police is interrogating her husband, Wahi Gul Khan.
SHOT DEAD: A gang of dacoits shot dead a biker, Mushtaq Ahmed, when he offered resistance in their bid to snatch his vehicle near Thul town on Sunday.
The victim had sustained serious injuries in the firing and was taken to the Taluka Hospital where he succumbed.
ROBBERY: Two members of a family were injured during a robbery in Kotla Munshi village, near Deharki, on Sunday.
A gang of robbers broke into the house of Nehal Khan and tried to take away cattle-heads. The inmates offered resistance upon which the intruders opened fire causing injuries to Nehal Khan and his wife, Bani Bibi.
The robbers managed to flee with the cattle-heads.
A case has been registered and hunt for the culprits was under way.
DEMO: The Sukkur Women’s Action Committee staged a demonstration in front of the Sukkur Press Club on Friday against the gang-rape of a girl, Mukhtiar Bibi, in Meerwala, Muzafargarh.
The protesting women demanded the government to arrest all the rapists and other people involved in the heinous crime and hang them publicly.