Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday told the provincial legislature of around $700 million investment in Thar coal project, adding that construction of its second phase has also begun.
He proudly elaborated Thar coal project asserting that the energy scheme no less (important) than making the country an atomic power but MPAs from opposition began crying foul when he ridiculed MQM for changing leaders. He lauded people of Thar for their efforts to help complete the project.
Shah said all the communities of Thar would be facilitated with the project that also included a model village, mosque, temple and community centre. He said government is also establishing a hospital and school for them. He accused the Centre, without identifying who in the federal government, of hampering the project's completion.
Citing PPP's slain chairwoman Benazir Bhutto, he said Thar would change the fate of Pakistan. He vowed his party would never countenance any changes to the 18th Constitutional Amendment. Without naming MQM, Murad Shah said that those wanted to bifurcate Sindh have been divided into four. He said there is only one leader of the PPP, which the party members and followers stick to. He noted that PPP's founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is known worldwide.
The house also adopted two different resolutions despite noisy protest from main opposition parties: PTI and MQM. The first was tabled by the PPP's woman legislator Syeda Shehla Raza against Federal Minister, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui for his remarks on Sindh which the resolution condemned as 'prejudicial statement.' The house adopted resolution called it an anti-patriotic statement that was aimed at creating differences and hatred among people of Sindh.
Shehla Raza said Sindh never let anti-democratic traditions to grow. She said that following the death of Fatima Jinnah - mother of the nation - Karachi was divided on the basis of creed, caste, language and religion. She reminded that Afghans are Muhajir (migrant) and not those who migrated to Pakistan (from India after establishment of Pakistan) in 1947.
Sindh Assembly adopted another resolution tabled by the PPP's female lawmaker Nida Khuhro against Prime Minister Imran Khan for supporting Narendra Modi in the Indian elections. She was saddened by the statement and asked Prime Minister Khan to apologise before the nation. She said India's Modi government continues to perpetrate atrocities in occupied Kashmir to freedom movement of people of held-Kashmir.
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