The Pakistan Peoples Party has announced a protest at Karachi Press Club against the massive hike in the prices of essential products and services including petrol and electricity. The demonstration will be held on January 30.
The party will also agitate against the shortage of natural gas and fertilizer.
The provincial and Karachi chapter leaders of PPP made the announcement to this effect on Monday as they addressed participants of the "Kissan March" taken out from District Malir till Shahrah-e-Quaideen.
The Kissan March in Karachi and other parts of Sindh was held on the appeal of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to protest against urea shortage and other economic hardships faced by the growers in the country.
The PPP leaders who addressed the participants of the Kissan March in Karachi said that the party's agitation drive would continue in the province till February 27 when Bilawal would lead a long march from the city towards Islamabad against the "anti-people"government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
They said that a Kissan March was merely a "warming up activity" in the run-up to the long march commencing from March 27. The party leaders believed this agitation would cause the eventual downfall of the PTI's government in the country.
Addressing the protestors, Sindh Information and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani, who is also PPP Karachi President, said the sheer incompetence on the part of the present federal government was responsible for fertilizer shortage in the country.
He said the farmers' march had been taken out in Karachi to show that the concerned people lacked trust in the agricultural policies of the present government.
He said the workers associated with the farming sector had taken to the streets in the city to secure the lawful rights denied to them by the present government.
He said the opposition political parties in the province had been unduly attempting to assume control of Karachi.
Ghani said that opposition political parties in Sindh had joined hands to protest against the provincial local government law, but they had failed to raise a voice in favour of oppressed growers, farm workers, and the residents of Karachi.
He said the PPP had organised the Kissan March to show the wrath of the people against the ill-advised policies of the present federal government.
He said the PPP had once more taken to the streets all over the country against the shortage and black marketing of fertilizer in the country.
Meanwhile, Sindh Environment Minister Ismail Rahu has said we are not getting urea fertilizer nor the incompetent government has given any relief to the people.
The environment minister said that rulers claim that they have reduced inflation, though people are forced to commit suicide out of inflation and unemployment.
If they had not been on the streets today, the peasant march could have turned to Bani Gala.
He said that Imran Khan's remote control ministers say that it is not shortage of fertilizer but demand that has increased. Which ATM machine has smuggled 150,000 tonnes of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) and 400,000 tonnes of urea to Afghanistan and pocketed billions of rupees. Advisor to CM Sindh on Religious Affairs Fayyaz Ali Butt said that federal government's policies have devastated the country's economy. Electricity, gas load shedding and unemployment have compelled the people to commit suicides, he said while leading and addressing Kissan March here in Dadu city.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 25th, 2022.
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