Karachi residents rejected opposition’s protest: Ghani

Information minister says food price hike, gas crisis should be main concern

KARACHI:

Sindh Information and Labour Minister, Saeed Ghani, stated that the people of Karachi rejected the Opposition political parties move to hold a joint protest in the city against the provincial local government law saying that it was meant to divert their attention from the problems of the people.

Speaking at a press conference at the committee room of Sindh Assembly on Monday, the Sindh Information and Labour Minister said that the people in the province were not concerned about the provincial local government law but rather they are worried about the issues of unemployment, natural gas crisis, and hike in the prices of essential products including medicines.

He said that the real motive behind the opposition's protest was to divide the people of Sindh on ethnic grounds.

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The provincial information minister said the political parties, which didn't succeed in recent cantonment elections and NA-249 by-poll in Karachi would face even more crushing defeat in the forthcoming local government elections in Sindh.

He lamented that the Chairman of the Pakistan People's Party, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, have been blamed even for the dog bite cases in the province.

However, on the contrary, no one among the rulers was willing to accept the responsibility and resign in the aftermath of the tragic killings of 23 tourists in Murree.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 18^th, 2022.