Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan would have no option but to make arrangements for his exit when PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari would decide the march on Islamabad streets. Talking to the media at Mohatta Palace, Murad Shah commented on the 'offer' of Prime Minister Imran Khan for providing container to PPP for staging sit-in.
As a chief guest, Chief Minister inaugurated Latif National Conference, organised by Siraj Institute of Sindh Studies in collaboration with Endowment Fund Trust. Answering a question, the chief minister said that PPP had no need of [PM] Imran Khan's container and food. "We have a long history of struggle and sacrifices and we know how to stage sit-in and launch protest drive," he said, adding that PM Khan had gone berserk. He suggested Prime Minister should step down prior to further decline of national economy.
To a query on Asad Umar's New York visit, the chief minister said Finance Minister must take care of his prime minister because Khan was going to commit [political] suicide. "Everything has gone upside down, particularly the national economy.
The [FBR] revenue recoveries have shown historic low, every day rupee is shedding its value against dollar, price hike has made lives of poor people miserable," he said, adding that these are the policies of the federal government against which people were tormented and they would come out onto the street when Zardari gave them a call.
"Sindh government had spent Rs 1 billion on the development of infrastructure in Thar and have finally realised the dream of Benazir Bhutto by generating electricity from Thar coal," he said, adding that electricity must be supplied to people of Thar and rest of Sindh but the agreement between the federal and the provincial governments calls for Thar's electricity in the national grid through the transmission line laid by federal government.
He said Thar has potential to provide electricity to the entire Pakistan for industrial and domestic purposes. He vowed to expand Thar coal-fired power plant projects and said the other coal-power projects would be installed at Keti Bandar. He said federal government had already committed a broad daylight robbery on resources of Sindh such as gas and electricity and now they are planning to control Sindh's coal reserves but we would not allow them.
Shah said that three other coal-field blocks in Thar had been developed and coal mining work on them would begin there very soon. "Thar coal is the cheapest source of energy and we as a nation must exploit our coal resources to generate electricity for industrial development," he said, adding that people are realising today that the vision of Benazir Bhutto to generate electricity from Thar coal was genuine and workable.
Addressing the Latif National Conference, Chief Minister Murad Shah said that Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai through his poetry gathered people of different religions and faiths on a single platform. "His is the message of love, fraternity and humanity," he said.
Murad said Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai's poetry taught us the lesson of untiring hard work and struggle for achieving a goal - the goal of becoming good human being. Bhitai's the main objective was to keep the Creator Almighty Allah pleased with humble actions. He said that Bhittai's message was imbedded in his heart and soul.
"When I was a child, my father Syed Abdullah Shah used to drop me at my school every morning and on the way right from home to school he used to recite poems of Shah Bhitai and then interpreted them in simple Sindhi for me," he recalled, adding that most of the poems were still in his memory.
Shah said the most of the literary figures invited to the conference had reached very late this morning. "The people who are very close to literature cannot wake up early morning and the people like me who are slightly away from literature are in habit of waking up early," he said in a lighter vein. He suggested concerned people have to find out the reason behind waking up late.
He lauded the efforts of Siraj Institute of Sindh Studies for publishing 18 books in four years. "I am sure the institute being run by leading literary figures such as Fahmida Hussain will publish more books and carry on research work left by Siraj Memon incomplete. The chief minister launched four Sindhi books Manzar Namo, Mulla Ji Dor and Shakespeare joon Akhaniyon. He announced to provide funds to the Institute for research.
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