SHIKARPUR, Feb 15: People’s Party Parliamentarians’ leader Aftab Shahban Mirani has predicted that governments at the centre and in Sindh will not complete their tenure as they have no roots in the masses.

Talking to journalists here on Thursday, the PPP leader said that governments had been formed by violating democratic and constitutional norms, therefore, they had no positive image.

He also rejected the devolution of plan and predicted that the local government system would collapse because of differences between district and provincial governments.

He said that a president in the army uniform was a joke with the nation and a violation of the Constitution.

Mr Mirani alleged that the rulers were trying to get the PPP out of politics.

He also criticized the separation of operation and investigation wings of the police and said that it had failed to deliver.

JUI-F: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F, Shikarpur district, has expressed resentment over what it called the anti-Muslim policy of the US and its allies.

The JUI, through a resolution adopted at a meeting, presided over by the JUI district chief, Maulana Abdullah Pahore, appealed to the government to persuade the US to settle outstanding disputes between it and Iraq through the United Nations instead of attacking Iraq.

ROBBERY: Six occupants of a car — Abdul Majeed, Azizullah, Ghulam Nabi, Ghulam Mustafa, Maqsood Ahmed and Muhammad Hafeez, residents of Dadu — were deprived of Rs29,000 cash, watches and gold rings by highwaymen near the Garhi Yasin bypass on Thursday night.

They were returning after presenting Eid greetings to brother of the prime minister, Haji Abdul Ghaffar Jamali, in the Rojhan village, Balochistan.

The Garhi Yasin police have registered a case.