Staff Reporter
Sindh Minister for Human Settlements and Special Development Ghulam Murtaza Baloch has said that due to the wrong policies and incompetency of federal government, poverty and unemployment have increased manifolds in the country and the poor are forced to commit suicides due to extreme poverty. This Murtaza Baloch said while talking to various delegations here in his office on Wednesday. He said that due to unbearable of gas shortage and electricity load shedding Industries were dying and investors were reluctant to establish new Industries. It is a matter of great concern that the federal government is taking no interest in bring positive change in the life of common man and common man ‘ life has become a living hell.’ He said that despite repeated requests from Sindh Government, no due share of natural gas was being provided to Sindh and this situation had forced a number of Industries to shut down and making thousands of people jobless, the Minister added. Minister for Human Settlements and Special Development Ghulam Murtaza Baloch has asked federal government to take immediate measures to improve the situation otherwise the people have right to protest. He was of the opinion that due to wrong policies and incompetency of the federal government and its cabinet members; the situation was moving from bad to worse, he concluded.More over, the PPP chairman Bilawal Zardari is also continually criticising the government’s policies and had claimed that another four million people were being pushed below the poverty line.He had said the price hike was going to wreck havoc with the country’s economy and the poor were being turned into homeless and helpless people. Bilawal views that the end of what he called puppet government was near and the rise of a new Bhutto would be there. He said that leaders and workers of PPP were punished for confronting dictators.and oppressors. The PPP chairman said his father Asif Ali Zardari faced jails and torture but never bowed before the dictators. He said the Bhuttos always stood for democracy and rights of the downtrodden and he would also stand for the restoration of ‘snatched rights of the poor people, peasants and youths’.
