PTI warns of ‘anti-corruption’ protests in response to PDM

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf warned the Pakistan Peoples Party on Friday that the latter’s protest rallies under the aegis of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) would be met with anti-corruption rallies in Sindh.

Addressing a public meeting in Hyderabad, PTI's parliamentary leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh claimed a movement against corruption had already begun in the province.

"The slogans against Bilawal [Bhutto Zardari] are now being raised even in Larkana," he said, while dubbing the PDM the ‘Pakistan Dacoit Movement’ and mocking PPP chairperson Bilawal for handing over the PDM’s leadership to an individual on contract - a reference to Jamaat-e-Ulema-Islam-Fazl's Maulana Fazlur Rehman.

"First they rented out a sit-in demonstration in Islamabad and now a movement is being rented out," he said.

The PTI leader asserted that Sindh would remain undivided and denied that his party's government in the Centre wanted to occupy Bhandar and Dingi islands. "The federal government only wants to develop these islands and to bring investments.”

Meanwhile, MPA Jamal Siddiqui said the PTI government had completed only two years and three months in power but was being asked to explain why problems that accumulated over seven decades have not been addressed.

PTI lawmaker Khurram Sher Zaman added that they would reach out to people in the rest of Sindh to address their problems. "The country saw how the PTI uprooted those from Karachi who used to say that the city couldn't be managed without them."