‘PPP, PML-N have failed the people of Shikarpur’

Karachi
Holding the federal and provincial governments equally responsible for last week’s Shikarpur bombing, Pakistan Muslim League – Quaid’s Sindh President Haleem Adil Sheikh vehemently condemned the rulers’ apathetic approach at a conference held at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday.
Sheikh, who recently returned from a two-day visit to Shikarpur, described what he termed the ‘pathetic conditions’ of the city’s government-run hospitals and the appalling lack of medical facilities for the victims’ treatment.
“There was no doctor, nor were there any treatment facilities. The innocent people of Shikarpur have been victims of two different types of terrorism; first at the hands of the cowardly terrorists and then the government’s negligence towards the injured and those killed,” he said.
“Government officials had switched off their mobiles phones and doctors were nowhere in sight. The victims’ families had to transport their loved ones in rickshaws and public vehicles as there were nowhere near enough ambulances in the city.”
The PML-Q leader criticised Sindh’s opposition parties for failing to play any constructive role in the bomb attack’s aftermath. “Passing resolutions after such tragedies makes no difference to the poor victims or their bereaved families,” he said.
As for the PPP-led provincial government, Sheikh levelled a serious allegation by asserting that the bombing was “a result of the PPP government’s connivance with terrorist groups.”
“Instead of taking any serious action against militants, the Sindh government has focused on sparking a constitutional debate to generate anti-terror public sentiment,” he stated.
Sheikh also had some choice words for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who had been present in the provincial capital Karachi on the day of the attack. “It was unfortunate to see that the murder of an MQM worker was a greater priority for Nawaz Sharif and that he could not spare any of his precious time for the people of Shikarpur,” he said.
“The PPP and PML-N, it seems, are playing a game to prolong their rule and have left the people of Pakistan at the mercy of terrorists and extremists.”