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On PPP turf: PML-N tries to woo Sindhi leaders ahead of Saturday rally
SUKKUR/HYDERABAD:
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has been creating quite a stir by actively canvassing in the stronghold of its political adversary, the Pakistan Peoples Party.
On Tuesday, one of its leaders, Rana Mashood, who is also the deputy speaker of the Punjab Assembly, met prominent Sindhi personalities in an attempt to win them over ahead of its rally in Larkana on December 10, Saturday.
He met members of the Sindh Tarraqi Passand Party (STPP), Awami Tehreek (AT) and Sindh United Party (SUP). This trio is also allied as the tripartite Sindh Progressive Nationalist Alliance (SPNA), which recently elected Jalal Mehmood Shah as its president for a four-month rotational tenure.
The president of the STP, Dr Qadir Magsi, and the president of the SUP, Jalal Mahmood Shah, assured Mashood that they would participate in the rally. However, the president of the AT, Ayaz Latif Palijo, said that the partys standing committee will meet on December 8 to decide whether it will participate or not.
A day earlier, Mashood had also met the chairman of the Sindh National Front, Mumtaz Bhutto, and the chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party Shaheed Bhutto, Ghinwa Bhutto. According to unconfirmed reports, both of them responded favourably.
The PML-N will stand with the people of Sindh. No decision will be made against the consent and wishes of the Sindhis, said Mashood.
Dr Qadir Magsi was enthusiastic about the partnership and the benefits that it could bring. We have agreed to work with the PML-N in order to establish a real democracy and end a host of problems that have been troubling people, such as corruption and inflation, he said.
The member of the PML-N in Sindh, Nehal Hashmi, said that Jalal Mehmood Shah will also speak at the rally.
The rally will take place at Jatoi House on Airport Road. The president of the PML-N Larkana chapter, Advocate Baboo Sarfaraz Jatoi, told The Express Tribune that seating arrangements have been made for 50,000 people and there is enough space for 50,000 more to attend. Mashood also held a press conference on Wednesday, in which he severely criticised the PPP and said that with the help of its allies, it had harmed Pakistan and disgraced the national institutions. The PPP has always used the Sindh card to perpetuate its power, but it never did anything for the welfare of the people, he said.
Mashood also said that the government was making a mockery of the Supreme Court by not implementing its verdicts.
On PPP turf: PML-N tries to woo Sindhi leaders ahead of Saturday rally – The Express Tribune
