PPP does not want to blackmail federal govt: Sharjeel

HYDERABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) does not want to blackmail the federal government and only wants solution to the genuine problems of Sindh.

Sindh Senior Minister for Information and Transport Sharjeel Inaam Memon said this on Wednesday while talking to the media after reciting Fateha for Nawab Yusuf Talpur in Umerkot district.

He said that if the federal government violated the rights of Sindh, the PPP would raise its concerns. Commenting on the services of the late Talpur for the PPP, Memon said the PPP leadership and workers were sad on his demise. He added that Talpur always spoke in the National Assembly on the problems of Sindh, especially water shortage, so that the province could get its share of water.

In response to a question, he said the measure of development in any province or region was not roads but health facilities. If a person was not healthy, what he could do with other facilities, including roads, the information minister remarked.

He said that under the rule of the PPP, hospitals with full facilities had been established in the province, in which people from Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab came for free treatment.

People did not go anywhere from Sindh for treatment, he said. He maintained that Sindh paid the highest taxes to the federal government, yet it was difficult to travel here on the National Highway and other federal highways.