Money recovered from Malik Riaz to be spent on public welfare: Sheikh

KARACHI: The Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly and the central vice president of PTI, Haleem Adil Sheikh has said that Imran Khan-led federal government instead of handing over the development schemes to corrupt PPP rulers in Sindh would rather allocate the schemes to the people of the provinces.

Sheikh speaking to the media persons during a news conference along with party lawmakers and leaders within the premises of Sindh Assembly on Wednesday, said that the chief minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah had no concern or interest with the chronic issues of Sindh but he was just keeping evil eyes on the public money to please his masters by committing the banditry on the funds meant for the various schemes and projects for Sindh.

He said that PPP leaders would soon lose their mental level once their corrupt practices were exposed, curbed and foiled, adding he said that rulers of Sindh just wanted to further push to ruin and destruction. Sheikh said that the federal government had provided all the required vaccines against the corona-virus while the provincial government had done nothing.

He said that the Imran Khan government had disbursed billions among the poor people of Sindh through Ehsaas Kifalat Program. “The PPP government had committed the massive malpractices in Benazir Bhutto Income Support Program and its former chairperson had gone absconding after inquiry was ordered against her for on the graft charges a few days back.

He said that the Sindh Card which was badly misused by PPP leadership, now stood discarded. He said that when the lawlessness was on the peak, people were kidnapped and cops were being killed. They staged a drama about the water crisis in Sindh.

Sheikh said that water situations were fast improving in all three barrages of the province. The PTI leader said that the Sindh government, according to their own documents, got Rs 1,650 billion and spent around Rs 8 hundred billion adding the same document revealed that 44 percent were misappropriated by the rulers.

The PTI leader said that the huge amount of money which was recovered by the Supreme Court from Malik Riaz would be spent on the welfare and well-being of the people of Sindh. He said that Asif Ali Zardari, Murad Ali Shah and others had gifted the lands of Sindh to Malik Riaz by evicting the poor people.