KARACHI, Feb 21: Malir and Lyari are strongholds of the Pakistan People’s Party, said Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah while speaking at a public meeting in Murad Memon Goth in Gadap Town on Thursday.

A prominent political personality of the area, Sardar Jam Bijar Khan, had arranged the reception in connection with his joining of the PPP along with his clan and friends.

Provincial ministers Agha Siraj Durrani, Sajid Hussain Jokhio, special assistants to the CM Rashid Hussain Rabbani, Waqar Medhi, Salman Abdullah Murad, veteran PPP leader N.D. Khan, Sadiq Memon, Najmi Alam, Abdul Razzak Raja, party workers and other people were present on the occasion.

Syed Qaim Ali Shah, who is also the Sindh PPP chief, congratulated Sardar Jam Bijar Khan and his colleagues on joining the PPP.

He said past governments had ignored Malir. However, the present government undertook a lot of developmental work in Malir and spent Rs2 billion on its development.

He recalled that the Sindh government also gave a Rs40 billion development package to Karachi.

The chief minister said that if the PPP came to power again after winning the next elections, more development works would be carried out to serve the people of Malir.

He said that 166 villages were regularised which had never happened in the history of Malir.

Electricity and gas was provided to 50 villages and more such facilities would be made available, he added.

Agha Siraj Durrani, Salman Abdullah Murad, Abdul Razzaq Raja and Sardar Jam Bijar Khan also spoke.—APP