HYDERABAD: Central leaders of Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) have demanded that deputy inspector generals (DIGs), senior superintendents of police (SSPs) and deputy commissioners (DCs) be transferred from Sindh to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and vice versa to ensure transparency and impartiality in general election.

They called for withdrawing protocol from former ministers and lawmakers and stopping police from harassing voters. If it was not done the GDA would resort to protests and strikes, they warned.

They were speaking at a press conference held at the residence of GDA secretary general and Qaumi Awami Tehreek president Ayaz Latif Palijo on Saturday.

GDA leader Nusrat Sehar Abbasi said that only two out of eight DIGs had been transferred so far within the province and said the alliance would not accept moving bureaucrats like SSPs or DCs from one district to the other within the province.

She said that if caretaker chief minister Fazlur Rehman was impartial he must take action in this regard. The Election Commission of Pakistan and Supreme Court should remove bureaucrats immediately, she said, adding that PPP leader and former Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Khursheed Ahmed Shah and other leaders were still enjoying protocol.

“The entire federal caretaker government must step down as there is no interim set-up in the country. Although caretaker Prime Minister Nasirul Mulk has good reputation, the interim set-up has failed for all purposes. The interim government must remove governors from all provinces,” said GDA leader Naheed Khan.

She said that Sindh’s controversial CM Fazlur Rehman was involved in PPP’s corruption as chief secretary and in fact all caretaker governments were extensions of PPP and PML-N, which amounted to pre-poll rigging.

She said that Zardari League was controlling the interim government through the new CM. SHOs of police stations and SSPs were bullying people to force them to cast vote for PPP in several districts, she said and warned the caretaker government to stop such nonsense immediately.

GDA secretary general Ayaz Latif Palijo said that FIA and NAB must take action against corrupt former ministers, lawmakers and bureaucrats. It appeared the two federal agencies had gone into hibernation in Sindh. They must move into action within 15 days to show their impartiality, he said.

He said that PPP chairman Bilawal drove around with 400 police officials and his party’s candidates moved around with four police mobile vans to show people that it was their own government and the next government would also be theirs.

He warned that all the SSPs and DCs who had remained sycophants of PPP during the party’s 10-year rule would have to face the music when GDA came to power.

GDA is ‘Dhandora alliance’, says Nafisa

KHAIRPUR: PPP central information secretary and candidate for NA-208 Nafisa Shah has said that GDA is nothing but a ‘Dhandora alliance’ as its component parties have no agenda.

She said at press conference at the local press club on Sunday that it was in fact an alliance of feudal lords who had got a chance to serve people during 10-years of Musharraf rule but they did nothing.

Published in Dawn, June 25th, 2018