SUKKUR: Sindh Minister for Industries Manzoor Hussain Wassan told reporters in Khairpur that he had predicted five months ago that PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari would return to Pakistan before December 27.
He said that his dream-cum-prediction had come true. Wassan, in the meantime, made another prediction, saying that 2017 was the year of general election, and his party had started doing its homework.
The minister said that the PPP would secure 50 percent of the seats in Karachi. Wassan said that with the census, the population of Sindh would touch the 50 million mark, and thus the province’s seats at the National Assembly would increase. He said that the PPP would soon have its governments at the centre and in all the four provinces.
Wassan asked Imran Khan to come to the PPP for devising a joint strategy against the government of Nawaz Sharif. Earlier, at a meeting which was attended by the officials of the respective departments, Wassan said that Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had ordered all his ministers to ensure good governance and transparency in the ongoing development schemes.
The minister said that he wanted a hundred percent compliance with the orders of the chief minister. He said he would not tolerate any negligence. The SSP of Khairpur told the minister that the law and order situation in the city was under control.
The police official also told the minister that some 516 policemen had been appointed purely on merit, and some 260 more would be inducted later. The Commissioner of Sukkur, Muhammad Abbas Baloch, and the Deputy Commissioner of Khairpur, Muhammad Salim Rajput, told the minister that all the ongoing development schemes would be completed on time.