LARKANA: Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi has said that Sindh government’s funds are being spent on Bilawal House and claimed the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf will inflict defeat on the Pakistan Peoples Party in 2023 election.

The minister, who is also president of PTI Sindh chapter, said at a workers convention in Bakrani area here on Friday that Larkana belonged to Bhuttos and not to Zardaris, and “we’ll not allow Zardari to evade accountability”.

He alleged that a massive amount of Rs560 million worth wheat was eaten away by rodents in government’s warehouses in Sindh and urged party workers to keep aside their differences and strengthen hands of Imran Khan in his fight against corrupt mafias.

He criticised Sindh chief minister and said that “Zardari mafia” had devastated every sector of government in Sindh. The provincial government was ignoring opponents’ areas and diverting all benefits to its supporters, he said.

PTI holds workers’ convention in Larkana

He said that last year 300,000 dog-bite cases were reported and of them 150,000 took place in Larkana alone, where according to him, the victims went unvaccinated.

He said that PPP government was keeping a lid on rising cases of HIV in Larkana. Asif Ali Zardari and his cronies had done excesses with their own soil and they had been befooling people bit now time had changed, he said.

He said that he had learnt from Imran Khan self-belief and courage to raise voice against injustice and oppression. “I’ll frequently visit the area for now onwards as revolution will start from Larkana,” he said and asked people to rise against PPP.

He said that Nawaz Sharif had escaped to London and now he was audaciously denying ownership of the house where he lived. Zardari would again find himself in the clutches of law, he said.

He asked a local PTI leader Dado Allah Bakhsh Unnar to make a list of the demands to help him get funds for his area and said that they could not expect any good coming from dacoits in provincial government.

Amir Bakhsh Bhutto, former president of PTI Sindh, talked about suffering and sorrows of Sindh and said that people were braving fragile law and order situation while the graph of unemployment continued to rise. It was not people’s fate to remain poor, he said, adding that previous governments were to blame for unstable economic conditions.

Allah Bakhsh Unnar described political victimisation of PTI workers and said despite all odds the workers would not ditch the party. False cases were being registered against PTI workers but they firmly stood by the party, he said.

Published in Dawn, January 22nd, 2022