Sindh

PTI warns of action if Sindh chief minister is not replaced

PPP’s downfall in Sindh is imminent, predicts MPA Haleem Adil Sheikh

Our Correspondent January 25, 2019

Sindh CM Murad Ali Shah. PHOTO: PPP/ TWITTER

HYDERABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which is being blamed for trying to topple Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Sindh government, has again emphatically demanded the removal of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah. The PTI Sindh’s General Secretary MPA Haleem Adil Sheikh, while talking to media in Hyderabad on Thursday, warned that if the PPP failed to replace the incumbent CM, his party will be left with no choice but to itself attempt that change.

“We want to give time to the PPP to bring someone else from their party to replace Shah but if it doesn’t, we will have to do something,” he cautioned. Sheikh reiterated that the PTI cannot expect an uninfluenced inquiry in multi-billion rupees money laundering case implicating the PPP’s leadership, including Shah and others, if Shah stayed.

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In a rejoinder to criticism over PTI, he blamed the PPP for establishing a reign of civilian dictatorship in Sindh. “A civilian dictatorship is already in place in the Sindh Assembly.” He predicted that the PPP’s downfall in Sindh is imminent after which the PTI will govern the province like rest of the country.

While referring to alleged failure of Sindh Aids Control Program, he slammed the performance of Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho and likened her with her sister MPA Faryal Talpur.

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Separately, addressing a workers’ convention in Khairpur district on Thursday, PTI Sindh President Ameer Bux Bhutto insisted that he had not shunned the nationalist ideology. “We were nationalists yesterday and we still are today,” Bhutto, whose father Mumtaz Bhutto headed Sindh National Front before the family joined the PTI, said.

He assured the workers that Prime Minister Imran Khan will not do any injustice with Sindh. He advised the workers to brace for a change of government in Sindh as the PPP’s days at the saddle are numbered. However, he clarified that the PTI was not trying to topple the provincial government.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 25^th, 2019.