Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) vice chairman Shah Mehmood
Qureshi on Saturday said that the people of Pakistan have become tired
of rampant corruption and inept policies of the rulers.
Addressing
a mammoth public gathering in Tharparkar's Chhachhro taluka, he claimed
that the PTI would soon rid the country of all such elements.
He
said Thar, like the rest of the country, has changed and people of the
desert region would overwhelmingly vote for PTI and would not allow the
PPP to "rig the elections as they had done in 2013".
Qureshi
said both federal and provincial governments were claiming credit for
the extraction of huge reserves of coal in Thar, but were tightlipped
about jobs and other facilities for the people of the region.
He said the continued deaths of infants and pregnant women was ample proof of corruption in governance of Tharparkar.
He
claimed that more than a thousand schools in Thar remain shut and free
ambulance service from Civil Mithi Hospital had been discontinued due to
a shortage of funds.
He said it was a matter of great
shame that infants were still dying of malnutrition and women and men
had to travel miles to fetch safe drinking water despite the "wastage of
billions of rupees" in the name of Tharis.
The senior
PTI leader urged the people belonging to minorities in Thar to vote for
"change for the future of the country and Thar".
Qureshi
used the occasion to warn ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif to stop
hurling alleged threats at the judiciary and judges who disqualified
him.
Sharif wants to put the democratic dispensation in danger, seeing no bright future for himself, the PTI leader alleged.
He
also lashed out at Asif Ali Zardari and the Sindh government for
allegedly not obeying court orders to give fair rates to sugarcane
growers.
He said the chief justice of Pakistan has
already expressed his displeasure at the provincial government's failure
to provide safe drinking water to the people of Sindh. He alleged that
the judiciary is interfering in civic issues because the government has
"miserably failed to even lift the garbage from Karachi and other towns
of Sindh".
PTI MNA Lal Chand Malhi, leader Haleem Adil Shaikh and others also spoke on the occasion.
