KARACHI, June 2: The Sindh Council of the Pakistan People’s Party has condemned the continuing load-shedding and contaminated water supply in the city and rising graph of crime and terrorism in the province. This has been stated in the resolutions adopted by the council, which were released to the media on Friday.

In one of the resolutions, the council demanded immediate end to loadshedding and that adequate and uninterrupted supply of clean water be ensured.

It maintained that continuing power breakdown was had not only made the life of people miserable, it had also seriously affected industrial production and many of the units were unable to meet their export targets and schedule.

It also maintained that coupled with power outage was the inflated billing by the utility that had made the products costlier and unable to compete in the international market.

It also noted that owing to power outages, water supply was also being interrupted and the city government and health department were slammed for oozing sewers and contaminated water supply.

The Sindh Council, which met under the chairmanship of Syed Qaim Ali Shah, also took exception to the government’s policy of demolishing old goths in and around Karachi and other parts of the province and held both Muttahida Qaumi Movement and chief Minister Dr Arbab Rahim responsible for such anti-people move.

The council in its resolution maintained that the government was deliberately trying to divide people and engineer a clash for prolonging its unrepresentative rule.

One of the resolutions also slammed the government’s privatization policy and alleged it was not transparent. In this context, the resolution condemned the privatization of Pakistan Steel, PTCL and more recently the KESC and maintained that due to such policies a large number of people were made jobless and the country’s strategic and profit making assets were being sold to foreigners at throwaway prices. The Sindh Council maintained that according to a survey about 52 per cent of the people were living below poverty-line.

In one of the resolutions, the PPP Sindh Council also expressed concern over water shortage in the province which had ruined its economy and created a draught-like situation as a vast hunk of agricultural land was unusable due to lack of water and a sizeable population was forced to migrate.

The resolution also demanded that Sindh’s due share of water must be ensured and warned that any further conspiracy to deny the province its due share would not be tolerated.

It demanded that the chief minister and his coalition partners should quit because they have allegedly failed to protect interests of Sindh.