As the MQM’s Altaf Hussain was busy praising the new local government system, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was criticising it.
“This ordinance is a new conspiracy to divide Sindh,” said the party’s Sindh Secretary General Saleem Zia while speaking to the media on Friday. The PML-N is not, however, a coalition partner in the Sindh set-up. They have no seats in the Sindh Assembly.
Zia met Sindh United Party leader Jalal Mahmood Shah to discuss the new system, and said that the PPP had laid the foundation stone for dividing the province. He added that by giving in the demands of the MQM, the president had betrayed Sindh and humiliated voters. “Through this ordinance, the MQM will be able to form a state within a state,” he said. “It is unfortunate that despite the Sindh Assembly being there, the ordinance was passed. It is a slap in the face of the people of Sindh.” He claimed that the parallel systems of having nazims and commissioners would cause more trouble and confusion.
PML-N’s Sindh President Ghous Ali Shah will address a press conference on the issue on Saturday (today) at his residence.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 8th, 2012.
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