Daily Times

LARKANA: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Provincial Chief Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on Thursday denounced party rivals and vowed to contest the upcoming general elections with party’s full strength and intensity.

After submitting nomination papers to contest election from provincial assembly seat PS-11 of Larkana, he addressed the media.

“PPP will hunt its opponents with arrow (election symbol),” he remarked while adding that his daughter Nida Khuhro has also filed her nomination papers. Khuhro claimed that PPP will contest elections against candidates of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA). “On the one side, there are remnants of dictators, Taliban’s henchmen and supporters of Kalabagh Dam while PPP stands in support of poverty-stricken and downtrodden masses on the other side,” he said. He vowed that PPP would form federal government as well as provincial government in Sindh with people’s strength and support.

He expressed deep concerns over the acute shortage of water and power outages in Sindh, and the timing of ‘controversial’ issue of Kalabagh Dam being raised that further damaged the sentiments of people of Sindh. “GDA had carried out rallies to support Kalabagh Dam in the past,” he said while adding that people of Sindh know their stance very well and would not cast their votes to GDA.

“The people of Sindh did not allow Pervez Musharraf and Nawaz Sharif to build Kalabagh Dam in the past, and would still resist the move,” he added. He demanded Supreme Court of Pakistan to summon Indus River System Authority (IRSA) and ensure proper distribution of water to the provinces.

Published in Daily Times, June 8^th 2018.