Bilawal kicks off ‘train march’ against inflation from Karachi
BY STAFF REPORT , (LAST UPDATED 29 SECONDS AGO)
–PPP chairman says centre has deprived Sindh of Rs120bn
KARACHI: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)
kicked off a train march Larkana from Karachi’s Cantt Station on Tuesday amid participation of thousands of people, including ministers, senators, MNAs and MPAs.
Called the “Karawane Bhutto”, the mass contact movement
against rising inflation in the country comes ahead of the 40th death anniversary of the late former prime minister and PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
The march will reach Larkana on Wednesday evening via Rohri, Sukkur, Habibkot and Naundero routes. A big gathering will be held at Shahnawaz Bhutto Railway Station in Naundero, where PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will address the party workers and supporters.
At Juncshahi and Kotri Railway Stations, Bilawal received a warm welcome by the party workers who showered rose petals on the train and chanted slogans in favour of the PPP leadership. They condemned the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government’s anti-PPP policies and extended full support to the PPP leadership.
Speaking on the occasion, Bilawal said that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government has deprived Sindh of Rs120 billion.
“We can provide education and health facilities to people of Sindh from these funds,” he said, accusing the PTI government of political victimisation of PPP leaders.
He said that Bhutto’s death anniversary would be commemorated with great fervour and party workers and people from all corners of the country would rush to Garhi Khuda Bux to pay tribute to him.
PYO Sindh’s thousands of workers participated in Karwan-e-Bhutto Train March. PYO Sindh President Javed Nayab Laghari, General Secretary Shoaib Mirza, Information Secretary Taimoor Ali Mahar, prominent PPP office-bearers and hundreds of workers departed for Larkana led by Chairman Bilawal Bhutto while participants of District Thatta, Jamshoro and Hyderabad were warmly welcomed by PYO. The leadership of PYO issued instructions to the workers in all districts.
On this occasion, the PYO president said that “Niazi government” cannot sleep after watching thousands of people in “Karawane Bhutto”. “We are in this caravan with our leader Bilawal Bhutto while our workers are performing their duties with dedication in the entire train march in Sindh for success,” he said.
General Secretary Shoaib Mirza said that the federal government, which depends on foreign loans, had made the whole nation a “beggar nation”.
On the occasion, PYO spokesman Taimoor Ali Mahar said that the PTI government was trying to sell the whole country and the nation to please international agenda but millions of people in Bilawal Bhutto’s train march will prove to be the last nail in the federal government’s coffin.
Taimoor Ali Mahar said that PPP is the biggest political party of the country. He added that the value of rupee in the country was depreciating and the way the dollar’s value was being increased, poverty and unemployment was increasing on daily basis, which had badly affected the life of a common man of the country.
On Monday, Bilawal encouraged the people in a tweet to join the train march. “Tomorrow morning our train journey from Karachi to Larkana begins. Join us for Karawane Bhutto”, he wrote.
https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/03/26/ppp-to-kickoff-train-march-today/
While Bilawal does his political gymnastics...more children in Thar (the forgotten region) die of malnutrition!
Seven Children Die Of Malnutrition In Thar
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) 34 minutes ago Tue 26th March 2019 | 08:57 PM
At least seven children died at the Civil Hospital Mithi due to malnutrition on Tuesday
MITHI (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / NNI - 26th March, 2019) At least seven children
died at the Civil Hospital Mithi due to malnutrition on Tuesday. Undernourishment and other health problems in the desert district continued to take toll of human lives in the area. According to district administration,
the total number of deaths in the ongoing month has reached 38.
As many as 184 children have lost their lives owing to malnutrition from January till
date, sources in the hospital said.It was also reported that
shortage of medicines at
Tharparkar hospitals was compounding miseries of patients. On
February 24,
three children died at Mithi Civil Hospital within 48 hours due to prevailing problem.
Every year hundreds of children die due to malnutrition, various infections and lack of proper medical facilities and medicines in the region, health department sources said.
Total death toll of children in
Thar dying
from various health related issues in
Sindh's Tharparker region continues to soar with three more deaths of children in civil hospital.
Sindh Chief MinisterSyed
Murad Ali Shah in
October last year had directed the health department to set up medical camps so as to deal with with the health issues as a result of drought-like situation in Tharparkar. While presiding over a high level-meeting, Shah had asked health department to seek assistance of medical universities in providing medical facilities to the people of
Thar.
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/pakistan/seven-children-die-of-malnutrition-in-thar-578849.html