'Resign or we will take our protest to Islamabad'

PPP leaders hold sit-in against Nawaz Sharif, demand his resignation

HYDERABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) provincial leadership has warned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that the party's movement, which started in Sindh to call for his resignation, will move towards Islamabad if the demand is not accepted.

"In the past [1993] when [former prime minister] Shaheed Benazir Bhutto started a long march against you [Nawaz], you had to resign [from the office of PM] by the time it reached Lahore," recalled Sindh Parliamentary Minister and PPP Sindh President Nisar Khuhro while addressing a sit-in on Sunday at Haider Chowk area in Hyderabad.

The PPP held the demonstration to demand the PM's resignation and to raise their voices against the shortage of water, power outages and supply of gas. Khuhro accused Nawaz of creating water, gas and electricity problems in Sindh. He cited both the Panama and Dawn leaks to ask Nawaz to leave his office.



"Gali gali main shor hai, Nawaz Sharif chor hai [There is noise in the streets, Nawaz Sharif is a thief]," he shouted as hundreds of party supporters followed along. If Nawaz remains in power, the country will be ruined, he said.

PPP leader Sharjeel Inam Memon alleged that Nawaz is trying to weaken the federation. But, he vowed, the PPP will foil this conspiracy. "Despite all the injustices and cruelty, we will make the federation stronger," he asserted.

Senator Aajiz Dhamra castigated federal ministers Khawaja Saad Rafique, Abid Sher Ali and Khawaja Asif, blaming them for using derogatory language in politics. Other PPP Sindh chapter leaders also spoke at the protest.