‘PTI trying to impose its rule in Sindh’

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has been trying to impose its rule in Sindh since it came to power in the Centre in 2018, claimed Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on Monday.

Addressing a press conference in Hyderabad, the PPP leader referred to recent discussions of creating a separate province and imposing governor rule as some of the ‘earlier pretexts for robbing authority’ from the PPP in Sindh.

“Prime Minister Imran Khan did not say he was sending the National Disaster Management Authority to Karachi [for desilting drains], he said he was sending the army,” said Khuhro. Pointing to excessive load-shedding in the province, he asked why the PM was not handing the power utilities over to the army too or asking it to resolve inflation and unemployment. “Why, then, has the army been given the responsibility of cleaning three of the dozens of nullahs in Karachi?” he wondered.

Alleging that the PM wanted to occupy Karachi, he said the PPP would organise a protest on Wednesday against this. “Pakistan is a federation strengthened by autonomous provinces. It is incumbent on the Centre to give provinces their due rights.”

Published in The Express Tribune, August 18^th, 2020.