KARACHI:The Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly, Haleem Adil Sheikh, coming down hard on PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari regarding what he called his ‘childish’ statement on the floor of National Assembly regarding the increase in donkeys, has asked him to order the ‘corrupt’ people around him to eliminate stray and rabid dogs in Sindh.
Sheikh, who is also central vice president of PTI, speaking to media persons outside the Anti-Terrorism Court after the hearing with regard to a case registered against him, asked PPP chairman to behave like a mature politician while commenting on the sensitive issues of the country. “Donkeys don’t happen to be so harmful and have been helpful to mankind since time immemorial so it is very childish and insensible thinking to make mockery of the increase of the useful animals,” he observed and asked ‘corrupt’ rulers of Sindh to save people of Sindh from dogs instead of clapping on the ‘senseless’ speeches of their party chairman.
The PTI leader said that 26 incidents of the dog-bite in the home district of the PPP chairman in a single day spoke volumes of their callousness towards the people of the province. He said that after PPP leaders failed to provide the ambulance services, people were using donkey-driven carts to carry the sick and bodies, adding he asked them to feel the difference between the meek donkeys and dangerous beasts.
Sheikh said that increasing cases of dog-bites, deaths of the small kids due to the outbreak of the measles and other viral infections were the slap on the faces of the corrupt and incompetent rulers. He alleged the speeches in English by corrupt and wicked people would not impress the people, who had seen their farcical faces adding he said that after the remarks of Chief Justice of Pakistan, Murad Ali Shah stood fully exposed and was acting as the manager of Seth Younis Memon.
He asked Shah to stop the politics of the naked political victimization by ordering to stop the supply of water to his opponents. “The PPP rulers are responsible for the people dying of dog bites, kids of Thar dying of hunger and starvation and those being kidnapped by bandits in troubled districts of the province,” he remarked.
Sheikh alleged that PPP rulers instead of giving any relief, despite getting funds in trillions, had only pushed the people to the backwardness and abject poverty and they always tried to snatch morsels from the mouth of the people by stopping the flows of water to their lands and localities in the cities.
The PTI leader alleged that people with a corrupt mindset had been inducted in the Sindh cabinet and elevated to high positions, who according to him, were patronizing and harbouring the hardened criminals and outlaws after the operation was launched against them. He said that police officials instead of curbing the menace were earning huge amounts by allowing the drug pushers to sell the contraband across the province openly. The PTI leader during his appearance in court filed the application with a request to transfer the case from ACT to district and sessions court in the light of the directions of the constitutional courts. The court on his request issued the notice to the prosecutor general to submit his report on July 12.