Demanding rights: QAT announces 100-day protest starting July 7

Party plans to raise issues of corruption, nepotism, extremism, load-shedding

HYDERABAD: The Qaumi Awami Tehreek (QAT) has planned a 100-day protest and mass mobilisation movement, which will raise the issues of corruption, nepotism, extremism, load-shedding and injustices with the agriculture sector.

"The [Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led] Sindh government is corrupt, incapable and irresponsible," said the QAT President Ayaz Latif Palijo while talking to the media in Hyderabad.

He said the movement will start from July 7 and conclude by October 15. He lamented that the results of the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) anti-corruption drives have, so far, failed to satisfy the people. "Even when NAB arrests a corrupt person, they are bailed out from the courts."



Palijo claimed that 6,000 schools and colleges in Sindh are still closed. "Like ghost teachers, now we have ghost universities like Sufi University [in Bhit Shah]. The chief minister is announcing new ghost campuses for the ghost universities," he said, alleging that billions of rupees have been misappropriated by the irrigation department alone.

Referring to PPP defectors in Punjab who are joining Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, Palijo said political parties should not allow corrupt elements to become their members.

Condemning the renewed wave of terrorist attacks in Pakistan, he said that without implemention of the National Action Plan (NAP), the evil of terrorism cannot be eradicated. "The government and prime minister are responsible for implementing the NAP."