SUKKUR - Senior Pakistan Peoples Party leader and former leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah has said that he would proceed to Islamabad and make an effort to reunite opposition parties on a single platform.
He was speaking to the media outside the Sukkur Accountability Court, where he attended a hearing of the reference filed against him, his family members and business associates by the National Accountability Bureau. He warned that if opposition forces did not join hands against the PTI government, then not only the nation but the state would bear the brunt.
“The PTI government has created problems for itself by never valuing the parliament,” he remarked. Mr Shah said that the opposition gave the government ample time to resolve people’s issues but it failed to deliver. He said the opposition should mobilise the masses and if it did not do this, there would be no difference between the inept government and the opposition forces. “Imran Khan has himself confessed that inflation has gone high and he is unable to check it. He has lost the right to rule after making this confession,” he argued.
Referring to the controversial bill on media regulating authority, the senior PPP leader said the PTI government did not have patience to hear criticism of its policies and that was why it was bent upon curbing freedom of press and freedom of expression.