Raising voices: PML-F wants govt to appoint opposition leader immediately

“The Sindh government should immediately issue a notification" said PML-F leader.

KARACHI:

Members of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) want the Sindh government to appoint an opposition leader immediately.

“The political victimisation by the ruling parties of Sindh has made it difficult to address issues affecting the people,” said PML-F’s Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah, who is also a former chief minister of Sindh, while addressing a news conference at Karachi Press Club on Wednesday. “The Sindh government should immediately issue a notification and appoint Shaharyar Mahar as opposition leader otherwise we are free to chalk out our future plan.”

Along with the party’s Imtiaz Shaikh, Ghous Bux Mahar, Nusrat Seher Abbasi, Mehtab Akbar Rashdi, Kamran Tessori and others, the party leader referred to the 25th rule of procedure of the Sindh Assembly. The speaker has to issue a notification to appoint an opposition leader within seven days but due to the ‘mala fide’ intentions of the speaker, the Sindh Assembly has been working without one even after the post has been vacant for two months, he said. “How can they announce the budget with an incomplete house?” he wanted to know.

Shaikh pointed out that there are several lingering issues, such as the merger of Sanghar with Nawabshah district, which are being carried out without public hearing.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 29^th, 2014.