‘PPP wants to be a political martyr’

KARACHI - Chief of Sindh United Party (SUP) Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah on Saturday said that by violating the verdicts of the superior judiciary, the PPP government wanted to be political martyrs.
He was addressing a press conference at Hyder Manzil on Saturday after meeting of the central committee.
Along with other party leaders, Jalal Mehmood Shah said that country was facing constitutional, administrative and other crisis but electricity crisis dominated all the problems. He added that National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) was the base of all issues, under which over 8000 criminal cases were withdrawn from the courts.
He demanded that all the criminals and other cases pending in the courts should be initiated and criminals who benefited by NRO should be arrested immediately. Shah said that PPP government was not ready to accept the verdicts of the SC, which may create opportunity for the third force to take action and come to power.
He criticized the PPP and its allies by choosing Raja Pervez Asharaf as Prime Minister, terming him non-political and non-serious in handling any issues. Jalal said that there is no policy and strategy at government level to resolve the energy crisis and other problems the people are facing.
He appreciated the Supreme Court for taking up the missing persons’ case in Balochistan. He said that a large number of political workers are missing in Sindh, while mutilated bodies of few of them are also found in Jamshoro and Guddu.
 He said that nationalist parties of Sindh will contest the next elections on joint platform, while talks are in process to make alliance with PML-N and PTI in this regard.

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