Qadir Magsi for electoral alliance in Sindh to defeat PPP

Urges 'establishment' to allow country to develop democratic institutions

HYDERABAD:

The Sindh Taraqi Pasand (STP) party's chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has said his party will join hands with all the opposition parties in the Sindh Assembly to contest against Pakistan Peoples Party in the next elections.

At a press conference at his party's office in Hyderabad, held after 29th meeting of the STP's congress, Dr Magsi said a new electoral front will be formed with the parties represented in the parliament to defeat the PPP.

"The people of Sindh should support us so that we together get rid of the PPP's anti-Sindh politics." He also raked Prime Minister Imran Khan over the coals for being devoid of the political acumen and for plunging the country in a financial and political abyss.

"The state has handed over reigns of the country to a gambler sportsman and he hasn't left any stone unturned to wreak havoc." The STP's chairman emphasized that the country should be allowed to strengthen its democracy and the democratic institutions.

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Dr Magsi held the PPP equally responsible with the PTI's federal government for denying development and prosperity in Sindh. "The province's autonomy is in danger because of the PPP which has let even Afghanis to become members of the assemblies."

He deplored that the settlement of the illegal immigrants continued unabated in Sindh and expressed fear that the native population is being gradually deprived of their rights to rule the province. He also accused the government for hatching a conspiracy to turn Sindh's youth in drug addicts by making narcotics easily accessible.

Dr Magsi believed that the purpose of the meeting between the leaderships of the PPP and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in Lahore is to strike a deal under which the former will continue to rule Sindh province. While discrediting the 2017 population census, he asked the Sindh government to conduct its own province-wide census.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, February 8^th, 2022.