KARACHI    -   Haleem Adil Sheikh, the Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly, on Monday filed a petition in Sindh High Court (SHC) in Karachi, seeking disqualification of Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali for possessing the ‘dual nationality’.  Sheikh in his petition claimed that Syed Murad Ali Shah was disqualified and barred from contesting the general elections by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on PS-73 Dadu district. He said that despite the court verdict, Shah participated in the by-polls and had emerged successful and soon after he was inducted in Sindh Cabinet as a Finance Minister. 

Mr Sheikh pleaded that he should be disqualified for his dual nationality and speaking lies before the courts under Articles of 62 and 63 of the Constitution of Pakistan since he had no more remained ‘Sadiq and Ameen’. He said that he filed the petition through lawyers including Advocate Abdul Wahab, Advocate Anwar Kamal, Advocate Mumtaz Gopang, Advocate Mohammad Asharraf Samoon, Advocate Ajmal Solangi and others.

Sheikh, who is also the central vice president of PTI, after filing the petition through his lawyers in Sindh High Court, spoke to the media persons outside the court and said that having found no way out to get rid of the corrupt, inefficient and callus PPP rulers in Sindh, they opted to go to the court for the justice for the people of the province.

He said that he had filed the application seeking the disqualification of Sindh chief minister by submitting the required documents, which could substantiate his dual nationality and the charge-sheet containing the serious allegations of the massive malpractices and the worse governance, adding that they would produce more solid proofs so that courts might easily send corrupt rulers back home. 

He said that PPP rulers in Sindh, despite getting the huge amount of Rs8,900 billion during the past 13 years, had done nothing to mitigate the sufferings of the people, who according to him, were even deprived of the safe drinking water in all big cities, towns and villages of the province. He said that they had decided to launch the decisive movement against the corrupt mafias operating in every department under the supervision of chief minister, cabinet members and the leaders of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), adding he hoped that they would get justice from the courts and would manage to kick out such blood suckers.  

MPA Sheikh said: “As many as 70 percent people in Sindh are forced to drink the highly contaminated water and are getting infected with fatal infections and diseases. He said that situations were getting from bad to worse in the entire Sindh with each passing day where the people were on the roads registering their protests to get their due share of irrigation water despite the fact that there was enough water in all three barrages of the province.