KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek Insaf’s Sindh Haqooq March led by vice chairman PTI and foreign minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Makhdoom Zain Hussain Qureshi, Leader of the opposition in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh, SAPM on Sindh Affairs Arbab Ghulam Rahim, MNA Lal Malhi and other PTI leaders, reached Mithi.

According to a statement on Thursday, on the sixth day Sindh Haqooq March resumed from Mirpurkhas and proceeded to Badin. A large number of people along with party workers warmly welcomed the Haqooq-e-Sindh March at various places en route by showering flowers, hoisting PTI flags and chanting slogans.

Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi while addressing a mammoth public gathering in Mithi said that number of participants of PTI’s march was increasing with every passing day on the other hand the PPP’s ongoing march that is carried out on government resources is faltering.

They are demanding accountability of three and a half years while on the other hand there is a issue of plunder of national resources for 15 years, he remarked. He said that PTI’s march will reach Karachi on March 6, but the sign of panic are visible even now as flags of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf are being removed from Karachi. Bilawal don’t get panicked as it is just beginning, he said.

I will submit report of the march to Imran Khan and PTI will also announce the next phase of the movement on issues of Sindh after due consultation, Qureshi said. Earlier, Shah Mehmood Qureshi while addressing a press conference at Mirpurkhas at resumption of the march on Wednesday said that PTI’s Haqooq-e-Sindh March was proceeding ahead without using official machinery and government officers were not installing their flags and banners.

FM Qureshi said that there was no grouping in PTI and it is only one group that is Imran Khan. We are confident that PTI MNAs are honorable and principled people and they will firmly stand with the party, he said adding that materialistic politics of Zardari wanted to acquire their support but PTI MNA’s will not trade their loyalty.

He said that PML-Q has announced to fulfill its pledge with Imran Khan and bubble of no confidence has burst and parliament has full confidence in PM Imran Khan. The opposition already tried its worth in parliament during legislation regarding SBP, he added.

FM Qureshi said that he had a telephonic conversation with vice president of European Union to discuss the Ukrainian situation. “I have presented Pakistan’s perspective and we agreed on the notion that way forward is through dialogue and diplomacy,” he said vowing that Pakistan is ready to play its role for peace in the region.

Pakistan from the first day believed that war is not a solution to problems and conflicts as we have sacrificed more than 80 thousand lives, he said and added that if the war in Ukraine escalates, it will cast negative effects on the European economy.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi further informed that he also had a conversation with Romanian counterpart and they discussed the issue of safe evacuation of Pakistani students from conflict hit area. Pakistani Embassy also helped Indian students and served them food as well, he said.

The PTI Vice Chairman regretted incident of Kandiari where PPP workers attempted to obstruct the caravan of Haqooq-e-Sindh March and said that it tantamount to an attempt aimed at collision and if it was done under directives of Shazia Marri than it was quite inappropriate. Bilawal is going to Multan today but we will not retaliate in the same manner as PTI workers are peaceful and well-mannered political workers.

“I have worked with Benazir Bhutto she did not had such approach,” he said adding that Bilawal does not know his relationship with the Bhutto family. We have a relationship with Sir Shahnawaz, Zulfiqar Bhutto and Mohtarma Shaheed, he said and recalled that in 2002, Benazir Bhutto nominated him as candidate of premiership against Mir Zafarullah Jamali.

Shah Mehmood said that Sindh Haqooq March is a process of offering alternate leadership to people of Sindh. Government could answer every question of PPP politely in a timely manner and if Bilawal has accepted the challenge of debate, step ahead; Imran Khan alone is sufficient for him.

Addressing a grand public gathering at Umerkot Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that he was striving to awaken the masses in Umerkot since ten years. He thanked people of Umerkot for posing their confidence in general election and casting one hundred thousand votes in his favour despite rigging and use of force by PPP.

If Asif Zardari had not burnt record of 32 polling stations PTI had won the elections, he said and added that PPP has won by using notes not by securing votes. PTI, despite pre and post poll rigging in Thar and defeat, accepted the results and gifted development projects to residents of Thar Desert while winners did not return to area, he noted.

Imran Khan provided Health Cards to 1.6 million residents of Tharparkar district on which Sindh government started hue and cry and blocked issuance of Health Card to other districts, Qureshi said adding that Sindh government received Rs. 9000 billion from federal government in 14 years and according to official documents Rs. 1400 billion out of them were embezzled.

Join the ranks of PTI if you want a bright future for young generations and end of ignorance and repression in Sindh, he urged the masses and said that time has come to offer last rituals of arrow as Sindh could be united and developed only after braking the arrow.

PPP played Sindh card and formed government for five times but they only served their own interests and did nothing for development of Sindh, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said and stressed upon people to take right decision. “I have selected Tharparkar because it is situated at Pakistan-India border and I am here to defend ideological boundaries of Pakistan,” Shah Mehmood Qureshi said.

Parliamentary Secretary on Finance in National Assembly Makhdoom Zain Hussain Qureshi while addressing the public gathering in Umerkot said that since the first day of PTI government opposition was striving to overthrow it but they failed in their ambitions in past and they would meet the same fate once again. PTI government will complete its constitutional term of five years and form government again across the Pakistan including Sindh, he said.

We are here in Tharparkar for attainment of rights of people of Sindh and development of the province not for votes, he said and asked that how many times the MNA who was elected from Thar visited the constituency after election while Shah Mehmood Qureshi was there despite of international crisis.

Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh while addressing the public gatherings in Umerkot and Mithi said that Sindh Haqooq march is aimed at attainment of rights of people of Sindh who are suffering miseries due to negligence, corruption and incapability of PPP.

He said that PPP has registered dozens of false cases against political opponents and they have involved me in a fabricated case when I came here to offer a fateha. Besides they had illegally grabbed lands of PTI workers and supporters as well, he added.

He said that a poet minister has sold the historical Umerkot fort and shops have been constructed within premises of the archeological site. PPP did not spared the education department and committed corruption of billion of rupees as school desks were being purchased at a hefty price of Rs 29000 per desk. He said that Timur Talpur, the MPA from Kunri, is a tyrant and he will be dealt with in the upcoming elections.

PPP spread a misperception that if something happened to them Sindh would fall into the hands of someone else, Haleem Adil said adding that but it will not happen as people of Sindh love Pakistan and they have started thinking to get rid of PPP that had plundered public resources in its 14 year regime.

Despite budget of billions of rupees hospitals and dispensaries in Sindh are almost non-functioning and children were dying in Tharparkar due to malnutrition and lack of medical facilities, he said. Imran Khan led PTI government provided Health card to people of Tharparkar to ensure better health facilities to people of Tharparkar who were dying due to non-availability of health care facilities and negligence of Sindh government.

PPP earmarked billions for installation of Reverse Osmosis plants for provision of water to water scarce district Tharparkar but Asif Zardari and his son embezzled the funds for RO plants and deprived people of Thar from clean water. Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Sindh Affairs Arbab Ghulam Rahim addressing the public gathering at Mithi said that opposition has failed earlier and now they will fail again.

He said that PTI was inherited the most terrible economic situation in 2018 as previous governments who ruled for decades have plundered the country. “People who have money abroad are afraid of America but Imran Khan is the only leader who did not bow before US and dared to say ‘absolutely not’, Arbab added. All the institutions and departments in Sindh are ransacked and people were on streets for justice and for bringing an end to atrocities of ruling PPP, he said adding that people waited for hours under scorching heat of Thar desert.