Shortage of flour not in Sindh province alone: Saeed Ghani

SUKKUR: Spiritual leader of Sarwari Jamaat Makhdoom Jamil Zaman, Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani, Information Minister Sindh Saeed Ghani and Provincial Minister Hari Ram Kishori Lal on Friday reached the village Kharwar Syed where they condoled with the heirs of the former provincial minister and MPA Syed Haji Ali Mardan Shah.

Speaking to the media on the occasion, Saeed Ghani said Syed Ali Mardan Shah was a senior leader of the PPP and an asset of the party and the deceased will always be remembered.

Responding to questions, he said that transfers and postings of government officers and employees was part of the job and five IGPs in Punjab, four in KP and three IGPs in Islamabad have been changed, so why not the IGP Sindh. He said that after 16 months of posting of IGPSindh, the Sindh cabinet approved the replacement of the IGP and the cabinet had taken the decision because the IGP Sindh’s performance was not satisfactory.

Responding to another question he said that the federal cabinet had not approved to replace the IGP in any province.

In response to the shortage of flour, he said that the shortage of flour was not in the Sindh province alone but all over the country and in this situation illegal and profitable people took advantage of the opportunity by enhancing the flour prices, which led to the problem and especially the flour shortage in Sindh erupted because of the 10-day strike of transporters. He said that the supply of wheat from warehouses was refused by the transporters.

He said that it is the democratic right of every party to exercise politics freely and for whatever reason their office was banned from opening in the past, because they had opened their offices in government buildings, schools and playgrounds, which was illegal. But now if they they get permission to open offices only on the condition of doing politics in their own buildings, not any government building as they in the past, they should be allowed.