BADIN, July 22: Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, the opposition leader in National Assembly on Friday addressed the public gathering at Matli city on the 23rd death anniversary of former Sindh Minister Dr Mohammad Ismail Udhejo and said Pakistanis are more pro-democracy than the people of Turkey.
He alleged Mian Sahib seems to have not learnt lesson from bitter past mistakes. Shah lashed out at prime minister for his focus on Lahore and totally neglecting Seriaki and three other provinces including Sindh and told that the sense of the deprivation among the people which he said was very dangerous for the federation.
Nawaz Sharif is jeopardizing democracy and federation. He said that federal government was unnecessarily intervening in the matter of the Ranger issue in Sindh. Shah said government was sincerely working but some people were creating the hurdles in the provincial matters, which he said against the constitutional values.
He said Ms Bhutto tried to steer Mian Nawaz from his his thought of General Zia but again Mian Sahib is doing the same thing of Jag Punjabi Jag, which said was weakening the federation.
He warned if Mian Nawaz did not mend his ways he would bring about his own downfall and of his government. He said that only PPP could steer the country out of the present crises and gather the angered the people other provinces on platform.
He said PPP leaders right from ZA Bhutto to Ms Benazir struggled against the dictators and laid down their lives but some people due to bad governance of Mian Nawaz were inviting Army to take over, which he said would be very disastrous for the country.
He said Dr Udhejo was also a martyr who had laid down his life in accident when he was going Islamabad to participate in the long March announced by Ms Bhutto against the then government of Mian Nawaz Sharif.
The provincial minister Dr Sikender Ali Mandhro, MPA Basheer Ahmed Halepoto, Nadir Hussain Khowaja, Saleem Yousif Odhejo , Ms Tanzeela Qambrani, dr Anwar Palari and others spoke on the occasion and lauded the services of late Dr Udhejo. -DNA