Disgruntled Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) members Zulfiqar Mirza and Fehmida Mirza on Sunday joined the Grand Democratic Alliance, an alliance of various parties in rural Sindh formed last late year to rival PPP. Addressing a press conference here along with GDA leader Pir Pagara, Fehmida slammed PPP’s performance in the province and said the party had done nothing mentioned in its manifesto. “I don’t think there is anything named PPP now,” she said. She deplored the state of development in Sindh and said there was a lack of clean water and quality education in the province. Alliances in elections are nothing extraordinary, she added. Pagara on the occasion said that the objectives of the GDA and Fehmida were the same. Published in Daily Times, June 4th 2018.