Palijo lambasts Sindh and federal govts

SUKKUR: Qaumi Awami Tehreek President Ayaz Latif Palijo while addressing a press conference at the Badin Press Club on Saturday lambasted the Sindh government for its alleged failure to provide any relief to the people of the province. He observed that both Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif were working on the same idea to loot and plunder the resources turn by turn and misguide the people of the country. 

He said that both leaders [Zardari and Sharif] and their allies would never give any relief to the people whimpering under the clouds of extreme poverty and the worst type of governance. He criticised both the Sindh and federal government for the worst-ever water crises in the province. He claimed people were punished for their stiff opposition to the controversial dams, which Punjab establishment wanted to make on Sindh’s water.

He lashed out at the Sindh government for failing to procure wheat from the farmers at fixed rates, adding the government had destroyed the agriculture sector of the province. He maintained  that the PPP co-chairman wanted to prolong his rule on Sindh by gathering all the feudals – even he was himself approaching councillors from union councils to join the PPP but his dreams to perpetrate his rule would be shattered  by the people of Sindh who, according to him, were sick of the corrupt  and inept rulers.

Palijo said Asif Ali Zardari had been in the habit to first hurling threats at the establishment and then mostly remaining out of the country. He alleged that PPP leaders, like Sharjeel Inam Memon, after plundering billions were now pretending to be innocent, adding that stern action should be taken against all those involved in looting and plundering the country’s resources.

He urged the state organs to play their role to curb the menace of terrorism and increasing wave of religious extremism. He said that courts were doing a commendable job after the failure of government to even provide safe drinking water. He said that controversial projects like Gorano water reservoir in Thar would only cause widespread devastation and asked the government to change its site.