PPP will muster enough strength to make Bilawal PM: Murad

Sindh CM says will win enough seats to make PPP country's biggest party

HYDRABAD:

The Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has expressed hope that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will muster enough strength in the lower house of the parliament to elect the party's chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as the country's prime minister.

He was speaking in Thatta district on Monday at the inauguration of International Medical Sciences and Technical College, a campus of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro.

"We will win enough seats from the four provinces to make the PPP the country's biggest party." He also believed that if elected, Bilawal will take the oath of the PM's office in the ongoing year.

"The PPP will win more seats in Sindh including from Karachi in the upcoming election," he predicted. "We will also form the government in Balochistan." Shah acknowledged that due to a lack of political concentration, the PPP kept losing electoral support in KPK. However, he said the PPP's chairman and co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari have pitched tents in KPK to prepare for the upcoming polls.

The CM announced Rs1 million as compensation for each of the 31 deceased persons who lost their lives in the train accidents in Sarhari, Sanghar district, on Monday. The provincial government will provide Rs200,000 to Rs500,000 to the injured, he told.

Shah said the new medical college will provide education to the students belonging to Thatta, Sujawal and Badin districts.

The Vice Chancellor of LUMHS Prof Dr Ikram Din Ujjan informed that the medical college will offer 500 seats and the technical college 1,000 seats for the admissions. He added that besides the degree programmes, the courses in nursing, physiotherapy, radiology, intensive care unit technicians and diploma programmes will also be offered.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 8^th, 2023.