PPP govt in Sindh will end soon: Sheikh

PTI MPA lashes out at Sindh govt, points out failures of provincial depts

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA Haleem Adil Sheikh lashed out at the opposition parties and the Sindh government during a press conference on Sunday at the Insaf House. He was flanked by MPA Khurram Sher Zaman and Adil Ansari.

"The corrupt government of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Sindh will end soon and all corrupt politicians will go to jail," claimed Sheikh.

Referring to Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz's recent claims about the Al-Azizia Steel Mills verdict, Sheikh said that the person shown in Maryam's is accused in 14 caces.
Sheikh also advised PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to visit Larkana and Rato Dero saying that the AIDS epidemic there is killing innocent children. "Bilawal should ask his party's government in the province why these children are not getting proper medical facilities." According to Sheikh, there are 903 children in Rato Dero, so far, who are suffering from HIV but a treatment centre for them is yet to be made functional.

"Bilawal is now delivering speeches in Dera Ghazi Khan and posing himself as a supporter of the Pashtuns," observed Sheikh. He asked where Bilawal had been when former Malir SSP Rao Anwar was killing Pashtuns in Karachi. "When FATA [Federally Administered Tribal Areas] was included in the national mainstream, the Sindh government had refused to give its share."

Sheikh accused Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah of engaging in 'political gimmicks'. The CM is inviting political leaders and talking about problems of the masses, said Sheikh, asking why the CM was now thinking of Karachi after 11 years when his government was soon about to end. All of Sindh, including Karachi, is inflicted with a severe water shortage, reminded the PTI leader.

Taking more jibes at the Sindh government, Sheikh claimed that Local Government Minister Saeed Ghani was the same with the children of Thar, thinking of them now after 11 years.

"The biggest water filteration plant of Asia has failed to deliver in Thar due to the corrupt practices of PPP rulers," said Sheikh, adding that Ghani and his team members were not willing to drink the contaminated water of this plant. "In one year, more than 570 children have died in Thar due to the lack of medical facilities," he said.

About the transfer of Karachi's three major hospital, from the Centre back to the Sindh government, the PTI leader said that Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho had called on President Arif Alvi three months ago and requested that the hospitals be given to Sindh government. Now that the president has granted her request, the PPP is misleading the people by claiming it snatched these hospitals from the federal government, remarked Sheikh.

Assigning blame to the 'corruption of Sindh rulers', Sheikh said that the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) bore the burden of Rs10 million loans while the National Institute of Child Health was also in bad shape. The PTI leader remarked that the MRI machine in the Civil hospital was not operational and asked the CM who was running the hospitals of Sehwan and Janghara and who runs the hospital in PPP MPA Faryal Talpur's constituency.

Sheikh levelled further criticism of the PPP government alleging corruption in irrigation and food departments, speaking of foreign aid for the AIDs epidemic, reminding them of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans taken during PPP's tenures as the federal government and pointing out flaws in the Sindh education sector.

PTI MPA Khurram Sher Zaman echoed Sheikh and referring to the water scarcity, he claimed that Karachi was being supplied 'gutter-mixed drinking water'. He said he would request Prime Minister Imran Khan, during his visit to Karachi on July 11, to ask the national watchdog to take action on all corruption references as the Sindh government had failed to deliver in not only Karachi but other areas like Badin, Thatta and Sukkur which are also facing acute water shortage.