KARACHI, Dec 16: Describing a public meeting held in Hyderabad on Friday as a message for a political change, the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional has challenged the Pakistan People’s Party to hold as a ‘big’ public meeting in Sindh.

Addressing a press conference here at his residence on Sunday, PML-F secretary general Imtiaz Ahmed Sheikh termed the public meeting of the PML-F as a referendum against the Sindh People’s Local Government Act 2012.

Mr Sheikh returned to Karachi after holding the public meeting in Hyderabad on Friday.

He said that it was a challenge to all political parties to hold as a ‘huge’ public meeting in Hyderabad.

After the public meeting, the people of Sindh had rejected the new local government system of the PPP which, he claimed, had been made to divide the people of Sindh, he added.

Mr Sheikh said their party had met President Asif Ali Zardari and requested him to repeal this law, but the president denied the request.

He said that a grand alliance could be formed against the PPP in the next general election and it had been decided that all nationalist parties were untied under the leadership of Pir Pagara.

He announced that the PML-F now wanted to gear up for an election campaign.

He thanked all nationalist parties and other leaders for making the public meeting in Hyderabad a ‘success’.

In the next elections, the PML-F would make seat adjustment with nationalist parties, he added.

“We will continue to protest against the local government law till it is repealed,” he added.—PPI