‘Unfair policies’: PML-N threatens federation, says Khursheed Shah

He says it is rare for smaller provinces to get budgetary allocations in federal development projects

HYDERABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah on Friday accused the PML-N of endangering the federation through its discriminatory policies.

“The N-League is snatching away the rights of smaller provinces, forcing people to think that they are not being given their share in resources. Such sentiments are found even in southern Punjab,” Shah said while talking to the media in Tando Muhammad Khan.

He said it is rare for smaller provinces to get budgetary allocations in federal development projects that, too, are being executed in a few big cities of Punjab with an allocation of tens of billions of rupees.

“The growing sense of deprivation in smaller provinces is dangerous for the federation,” the opposition leader warned.

He went on to label Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government as autocracy. “Quaid-e-Azam founded Pakistan as a welfare state but Sharif is turning it into a commercial state.”

Published in The Express Tribune, July 23^rd, 2016.