The PPP chairman should reflect upon his party’s long years of rule in Sindh
LAHORE: Recently speaking at a public meeting in Multan, Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari criticised the PML-N and PTI leadership, saying both have failed to deliver. He called Imran Khan an ideological pawn of Maulana Samiul Haq, while he accused the PML-N of spending much more in Lahore than any other district or region of Punjab, implying it to be one of the reasons for the lack of development in southern Punjab.
The PPP chairman should reflect upon his party’s long years of rule in Sindh. While significant development can be witnessed across Lahore city, conditions have not improved for the better in Karachi or any other major city of Sindh.
Water shortage, broken roads, faulty planning and design of overpasses and pedestrian bridges and chaotic traffic are a common sight in the biggest city of the province. It would take no rocket science to draw a comparison between the transport system in Lahore of today and the one that of eight years ago. Infrastructure development has taken a massive leap forward.
Hence, keeping with the tradition of bashing one’s political opponents with no regard for the facts on the ground, the PPP chairman relied upon the achievement of the party’s old leadership to make a case for the success of his party in the next general elections rather than promising to improve conditions in Sindh.
Iqra Habib
Published in The Express Tribune, December 18th, 2017.
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