ISLAMABAD:
Senator Farhatullah Babar, spokesperson for the Pakistan Peoples Party, on Sunday denied media reports that the party was considering replacing Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah. The spokesperson said that the reports were based on conjecture and were not true.
Earlier on Sunday, several media channels reported that the PPP had decided to replace Qaim Ali Shah. They said Murad Ali Shah had emerged as the strongest candidate for the post of chief minister of Sindh.
Murad Ali Shah, who recently gave up his Canadian nationality, has filed his nomination papers to contest by-elections for the Sindh Assembly from PS-73, which was recently vacated.
Media channels reported that several Pakistan Peoples Party leaders believed that Murad Ali Shah’s appointment could help in addressing party workers’ issues and improving the performance of provincial institutions.
Senator Farhatullah Babar later put the rumours to rest and said these were simply media speculations.
PPP chairman Bilalwal Bhutto also tweeted about the alleged shuffle saying that the PPP had no plans to change the leader of the house in the Sindh Assembly.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 3rd, 2014.
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Sindh cannot hope for development and progress until PPP and its' remnants are long gone. This party is singularly responsible for keeping Sindh in the dark ages. Education, Hospitals, and infrastructure are in shambles while the leaders have become billionaires during the last 40 years of their rule.
Actually they are left with no other option. Murad Ali Shah is the architect of fiscal mismanagement in Sindh. As a Finanace Minister and Advisor his job is to smoothen corrption and rent seeking by ensring timely flow of funds to dubious schemes. Just take any financial scandal during last five years and he has made sure there is no checks and balance applied by Finance Department. Money was released to projects which even did not exist in budget books.That is the only reason he is so close to the mafia.
Isn't he way pass the retirement age of 60? For all other jobs there is an age limit; how come the most important post in Sindh is exempt of this rule?
He certainly does not have what it takes to be a good CM.......be he has what it takes to be a survivor.......and that should count for something.
Qaim should stay as CM, says a press release from the society for promotion of medical marijuana!
If PPP was sincere with sindh, they would have changed him years ago.