Tag: Indus River

He warned the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government against testing patience of PPP jiyalas, saying if it didn’t refrain from it, the PPP would show it how “theft of vote” was avenged. He said the PPP preferred service delivery like construction of bridges over the River Indus, canal lining, road networks, subsidy to farmers and provision of employment in Thar and quality cardiac care services. He said the “selected prime minister” and the Punjab chief minister could not compete with the Sindh chief minister. He said an inept federal government was meting out step-motherly treatment to the people of Sindh who were being punished for voting for the PPP. He said Imran Khan needed to learn principles of politics before talking about principled politics and added that the finger of umpire worked in cricket and the people’s will in politics. He said those who talked about providing 10 million jobs and five million houses to people had snatched from them already available job opportunities and deprived them of shelter. “Pakistan does not have electricity, gas and investment but the federal ministers are claiming there is no price hike and advising people to be patient. Mr Bhutto-Zardari accused the government of closing water and electricity supplies to Sindh which contributed 80pc of gas produced in Pakistan. He said billions of rupees of the Sindh government had been withheld which badly affected development process. Earlier, Mr Bilawal-Bhutto visited residence of Asad Sikandar during which shops of the area were closed by the administration.