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‘PPP govt agitating over agencies’ domain’

Karachi Sindh Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said the Pakistan People’s Party’s Sindh government has no objection to raids being conducted by federal agencies in the province, but its agitation is over the domain of these agencies. “The FIA, NAB and Rangers in their raids on offices

By our correspondents
September 02, 2015
Karachi
Sindh Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said the Pakistan People’s Party’s Sindh government has no objection to raids being conducted by federal agencies in the province, but its agitation is over the domain of these agencies.
“The FIA, NAB and Rangers in their raids on offices of the KMC the KBCA and of such similar civic bodies have been soliciting records dating up to 20 years back when there had been either the government of Nawaz Sharif or of [Pervez] Musharraf,” said the local govt minister on Tuesday while talking to newsmen and earlier addressing businessmen during his visit to the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry.
On the other hand, no file of record is being solicited by these agencies pertaining to the PPP government’s era, he said.
Shah said that whosoever was involved in corruption should be caught but blaming the PPP for terrorism under the pretext of corruption would not be tolerated at any cost. He said nobody should be held responsible for wrongdoings without proofs against him.
The minister said that due action should be taken against any leader, minister and MPA of the PPP, including himself, if they were found involved in corruption, but branding anyone as corrupt or terrorist without any evidence was not correct at all.
He said the PPP was the only political party that had openly supported Operation Zarb-e-Azb against terrorism and always sided with Pakistan’s armed forces while other parties, including the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, had never strongly opposed these terrorists.
He said all political forces were required to get united on a single platform in the drive against terrorism that had become serious with the passage of time.
Shah said the PPP in its previous governments in the centre and Sindh under its policy of doing the politics of reconciliation had taken along with all political forces, while in the present day as the PPP was still in power in Sindh all political parties including the MQM had been taken on board over government affairs.
He said it was the PPP’s provincial government which had launched the drive to purge the local government department and its subsidiary agencies of ghost employees and soon lists would be publicly revealed containing big names of ghost employees. However, none of these ghost employees pertaining to the local government department had association with the PPP, said the minister.
He lauded the efforts of the police, Rangers and other security institutions for restoring and maintaining law and order in Karachi.