HYDERABAD: Dist govt comes under fire
HYDERABAD, Sept 8: The People’s Party Parliamentarians has criticised what it calls the inefficiency of the district government during the current rainfall. It said that City, Latifabad and Qasimabad talukas had been completely inundated but the district government had done nothing to help people.
In a statement issued here on Friday, PPP district president MPA Zahid Bhurgari, Fayaz Ali Shah, Aftab Khanzada and Mir Fateh Talpur said that knee-deep water was standing on roads and streets of the city.
They said that people had become prisoners in their homes and many were living on roofs of their houses.
They said that all tall claims of the district government had been proved wrong and the district had become a hell for people.
The PPP leaders said that the entire city had been plunged into darkness and the people did not have a drop of water to drink as power supply had been suspended.
They demanded that efforts should be made on a war footing to drain out the rainwater.
PROTEST: Family members of activists of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz held a demonstration on Friday in protest against the disappearance of party leaders.
Talking to reporters, Shahnawaz Bhutto, Sohail Hakro and Mukhtiar Zaunr said that JSMM leaders Muzaffar Bhutto, Sattar Hakro, Nawaz Zaunr, Sikandar Soomro and Ahmed Khan Teeno had been detained by personnel of secret agencies eleven months back but their whereabouts had not been disclosed till date.
They said that they had been declared absconders.
They said that despite assurances by federal minister Mohammad Ali Durrani, arrested leaders had not been released.
They appealed to the international community, World Sindhi Congress, SANA and nationalist leaders to raise their voice against the detention of the JSMM leaders.