LARKANA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf will hold a public meeting in Larkana on Monday (February 28) to welcome participants in the ‘Sindh Haqooq March’ to the city, the party’s senior vice president Amir Bakhsh Bhutto told a press conference at the local press club on Friday.

He said that Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA), PTI’s ally in the federal government, was invited to the public meeting and it’s MPA from Larkana Moazzam Abbasi extended his cooperation in response. Mr Abbasi was present at the press conference.

Mr Bhutto said that Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi would be leading the march along with other senior central and provincial PTI leaders and he would also address the Larkana public meeting.

He noted that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was starting its ‘long march’ to Islamabad from Karachi, and said it was a democratic right of every party to hold a march but warned against any attempt to disturb PTI’s public meeting. “No such attempt would be tolerated,” he said, adding that the district administration would monitor the situation. “Hopefully, PPP will not put any obstacle in our march as well,” he said.

Replying to a question, he said that opposition’s [Pakistan Democratic Movement’s] planned no-confidence motion would prove to be an exercise in futility, arguing that each of its components had its own agenda to follow. Basic differences existed among them but they all were trying to save their skin, he said.

Mr Bhutto said the PTI march would expose PPP’s plunder and misdeeds and make it sure that PPP was not voted to power next time.

He said the Sindh Haqooq March would serve as the launch of a campaign for the upcoming local government as well as general elections. He expressed his confidence that PTI would inflict a historic defeat on PPP.

“PPP has brutally looted Sindh; its leaders became millionaire and billionaire overnight but PTI will not let them go scot-free,” he said.

MPA Moazzim Abbasi said “we will participate in the Feb 28 public meeting from the platform of the Larkana Awami Ittehad (LAI)”. He warned that if anything bad happened to the event, PPP and the district administration would be held responsible for it.

Dado Allah Bakhsh Unnar of PTI also spoke.

Published in Dawn, February 26th, 2022