Political rhetoric: Former chief minister lambasts Sindh govt

Rahim requests COAS to initiate investigations into two attacks on Benazir Bhutto

KARACHI:

Former chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim has requested the Chief of Army Staff to initiate investigations into the two attacks on Benazir Bhutto - the one on October 18 and the other on December 27.

“The army is capable and can resolve the issue,” Rahim said. “Scotland Yard failed to trace the real culprits. The leaders of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) are blackmailing leaders of various parties over these issues.” Everything will come out into the open once the investigation is carried out by the army.

Speaking to the media, the former chief minister claimed that a provincial government did not exist in Sindh. “The biggest issue right now is sugarcane, but the Sindh government does not allow us to take it up in the Assembly,” he complained.

“Corruption is everywhere, not just the government,” said another former chief minister, Liaquat Ali Khan Jatoi. “Roads, hospitals and schools - everything has been ruined by this government,” he said. Jatoi was of the belief that the PPP lawmakers had lost the respect of the people due to bad governance and corruption. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Aijaz Shah Sheerazi alleged that thousands of acres in different parts of the province had been forcefully occupied by some influential persons. “Former president Asif Ali Zardari is behind this land mafia,” he claimed. He disclosed that Anwar Majeed, an influential person in his district Thatta, had occupied public and forest lands.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 27^th, 2015.