Had Imran been playing cricket today, the team would have lost: Sindh CM

SUKKUR: Sindh Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah said on Tuesday the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan’s attitude was not serious like politicians. He said the PTI chief should come to Sindh for giving lectures to cricket players. Had Imran been playing cricket today, the team would have lost, he claimed. He added that he wished to bring a strong cricket set-up in the province.

Talking to the media, the chief minister announced a special investigation into the Karsaz incident and vowed that the blood of martyrs would not be allowed to go waste.He said the morning following the attack, all evidence of the blast was removed from the site of the incident. While endorsing the workers’ slogan of ‘Go Nawaz Go’, he said the PM’s policies were pro-Punjab but discriminating towards other provinces. There would be slogans of ‘Go Nawaz Go’ if Nawaz fails to take along all the provinces together. He said the PM had failed to provide equal rights to the provinces.

Commenting on the allegations levelled at Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad by PSP chief Mustafa Kamal on Monday, Murad Ali Shah said this was not the first time such accusations were leveled at the governor.

The chief minister said that some people in the past had declared Ishratul Ibad as one of their own, while others had distanced themselves from the governor. Ishratul Ebad’s issue was the Federation’s concern, he added. He said that he had never invited the governor to join the PPP.

The chief minister called for the federal government to review its treatment of the provinces. He alleged that the Punjab was being favoured by the government at the expense of other provinces.

Meanwhile, Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, along with Sindh CM, Faryal Talpur, Nisar Khohro, Syed Qaim Ali Shah and others, laid a floral wreathmartyrs of the Karsaz incident in Gharhi Khuda Bakhsh here on Sunday. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, amid tight security, reached Larkana from Karachi and offered Fateha and laid floral wreaths on the graves of martyrs of the Karsaz incident.

The unidentified workers were laid to rest in the Bhutto graveyard by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and the workers were named as ‘I am Bhutto’. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, while addressing the party workers, said the martyrs of Karsaz incident had sacrificed their lives in defending democracy when his mother Shaheed Benazir Bhutto returned to lead the people of Pakistan. But, he added, some traitors attacked her rally in which she survived, and hundreds of party workers were killed while defending Benazir Bhutto and democracy. He paid rich tributes to the martyred workers and said that their sacrifices would not be forgotten. The PPP chairman said the martyred PPP workers struggled along with his martyred mother for democracy and challenged the anti-democratic forces. He said the PPP workers were still determined to fight the undemocratic forces.

Later, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met with District chairman Larkana and different delegations at the Naudero House in Larkana.