said “free-wheeling” politicians and “turncoats” had always cobbled alliances against the PPP in all the previous elections on the instigations of undemocratic forces, but they had always met with defeat.
The PPP workers and office= bearers from all three districts also separately met the chief minister to discuss the political situation ahead of the upcoming local government elections, and the arrangements made by the provincial agencies for maintaining peace and security.
Balochistan issues
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has urged the federal and Balochistan governments to take urgent steps for mitigating the sense of deprivation in the province by providing basic amenities to the people.
He said this during a meeting with PPP ticket holder from Gwadar, Ijaz Baloch, who had called on him at the Governor House on Thursday.
Baloch had informed Bilawal that people of Gwadar were facing severe shortage of drinking water for the past three months but the authorities had remained unmoved despite protests and demonstrations.
He said plants had been installed in Gwadar but natural gas was available for only a few selected localities while the poor and traditional fishermen’s communities did not have this facility.
Bilawal remarked that such injustice and discrimination in the provision of civic amenities in were intolerable and his party wouldn’t remain silent over the issue.
He said the late Benazir Bhutto had ordered the construction of Akra Kaur Dam near Gwadar in 1988 which had been completed during her second tenure in 1995 to provide potable water to the people of Gwadar.
He stressed the federal and Balochistan governments to pay heed to water shortage in Gwadar to avoid any human tragedies, adding that people were the owners of their own resources after the 18th amendment.
Bilawal assured Ijaz Baloch that he would meet PPP workers from Balochistan and look into the party’s organizational affairs.