Chairman, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan criticised the Sindh government for not allowing IDP to enter into the province on the pretext of completing registration process prior to entry. While talking to media personnel on Saturday.
He said that this was unconstitutional as citizens of Pakistan cannot be denied to enter into any part of the country, nor can they be asked to get registered first to enter into another province. 'This fact is even more despicable that thousands of IDPs have been stranded in the soaring temperatures of Kashmore, while the Sindh government, under the influence of coalition partner MQM, denies them access to a part of their own country', he declared.
Criticising role of MQM and its leader Altaf Hussain in relation to fallout of ongoing military operation in Swat, Imran said, 'it is shameful that MQM is not prepared to shoulder the responsibility alongside its governing partner, PPP, at the time of need.'
Moreover Khan said, 'Altaf Hussain's newly discovered love for military operations to please his foreign allies is in contrast to his earlier condemnation of the military operation in Karachi in 1992 and is totally against its own principles', Khan added.
The IDPs have lost their homes, their crops and future, because of the present government's policy of greediness for US dollars and it is unacceptable and unbearable that the provincial leadership of Sindh is now refusing to provide them basic shelter and access to territory, which is against law of land as every national of the country belongs to any part has right to settle any part of the country without any restriction, he added.
He said that he found it totally unacceptable that at a time of such immense human tragedy, the response of the MQM-PPP coalition in Sindh was turning the crisis into a potential ethnic conflict. Have we learnt nothing from our history and where is our sense of humanity towards our fellow citizens who have become refugees in their own country?, Khan questioned.
Imran urged the present leadership to immediately allow all IDPs to enter into the province, exercising their constitutional rights as Pakistanis to move freely across this country with no barriers created on flimsy pretexts such as registration. Further, he called on the government to re-assess the rationale for the military operation, including the untenable strategy of using heavy artillery and aerial bombardment which is leaving countless innocent citizens dead, alongside millions stranded in the war zone.
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