PPP announces opposition’s power show in Karachi on 18th

KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party on Wednesday announced that it would stage a “massive power show” in the metropolis on Oct 18 from the platform of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) saying the event would be the “beginning of the end” for the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government.

The announcement came after the meeting of the PPP’s executive committee chaired by president of the party’s Sindh chapter Nisar Khuhro here at the Chief Minister House.

Briefing the media after the meeting, he said that Karachi would host the second public meeting of the PDM on Oct 18.

The party will host PDM leaders on the 13th death anniversary of victims of Karsaz blasts

The day, he said, would mark the death anniversary of more than 200 victims of the twin Karsaz blasts at the homecoming procession of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.

Rally to be held at sprawling Bagh-i-Jinnah

“The October 18 rally would be held at Bagh-i-Jinnah adjacent to Quaid’s mausoleum,” he said. “The federal government has already started panicking and the October 18 rally will lead to its fall.”

Mr Khuhro said that people from all over Sindh would attend the rally, which would be addressed by PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and other opposition leaders.

He expressed the hope that the people of Karachi and the rest of Sindh would prove their loyalty to reject the “selected government”.

The PPP leader said the Wednesday meeting also demanded that the federal government withdraw the presidential ordinance aimed at annexing a part of Sindh by taking control of the twin islands off Karachi’s coast.

He said the government was behaving like a dictator and it was high time to send it packing.

‘Plot to annex part of Sindh’

“The islands off the coast of Sindh are the property of the Sindh government. If President Arif Alvi was loyal to Sindh the he would have not issued such an ordinance. The people of Sindh have rejected the ordinance with regard to these islands. This ordinance is a conspiracy to annex part of Sindh,” he said.

He blamed Prime Minister Imran Khan for being unaware of the country’s problems and asserted that Karachi was very much part of Sindh whose people had given their mandate to the PPP.

Mr Khuhro asked the prime minister to act as the chief executive of the country, and not of a certain specific area.

Reiterating that PM Khan’s statement on Karachi’s issues smacked of bias, he lamented that the prime minister did not visit the constituency from where he was elected during his recent visit to the city.

“Similarly, he did not visit those areas of interior Sindh which are worst-affected by floods, which shows that he did not consider Sindh to be part of Pakistan,” he added.

He said the meeting of the executive committee also expressed concern over certain political segments hatching conspiracy to divide Sindh.

He said that division of Sindh was against the spirit of Quaid-i-Azam’s ideology and vowed that any such move in the name of urban rights would be resisted.