PTI blames PPP for worker’s ‘custodial death’

Demanding a judicial inquiry into the death of a worker apparently killed in the custody of the Umerkot police, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNA Arif Alvi blamed the Pakistan Peoples Party-led Sindh government of victimising activists of rival political parties.

Addressing a presser at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday, Alvi claimed that a PTI worker, Shafi Muhammad Solangi, was framed in a bogus terrorism case and later killed in police custody in Umerkot.

Denouncing the killing, Alvi said that the PPP would not be able to stop the rising popularity of PTI in the province through these tactics. He maintained that the provincial government had become a corruption mafia.

He further accused PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari along with mill owners of pressurising sugar cane growers into selling their crops at lower rates than fixed by the Supreme Court.

He said Zardari and mill owners want to buy the crop at their preferred rates which would cause a loss to the farmers. “Due to unjust policies of the Sindh government, the farmers are facing serious problems,” said Alvi.

He maintained that, “We will hold Zardari and his group accountable for each and every penny they have looted from the public,” the PTI leader said, adding that, “Whatever game they would play, people would not believe the PPP anymore.”

The MNA said the PTI’s gathering to be held on January 28 in Larkana, would prove that people support Imran Khan over looters and plunderers. “The so-called democratic government [in Sindh] is using dictatorial tactics against its political rivals.”

Another senior leader of the PTI, Haleem Adil Sheikh while also speaking at the presser said the PPP was using the police to fail the PTI, but it will eventually fail in its own designs. “They have not even been able to provide safe drinking water to the people in their 10-year-long rule.”

Another party leader, Zaid Talpur, demanded the chief justice of Pakistan to hold a judicial inquiry into the killing of the PTI worker.