The Chief Minister of Sindh Murad Ali Shah is not being removed from his post as the rumours suggesting this are false, said the Pakistan Peoples Party’s leader Sohail Anwar Siyal on Friday. There is not a modicum of truth in the speculations that the Sindh government is moving to do away with Murad Ali Shah’s ministry and install a different CM in his place. Earlier PPP’s leader Ghulam Qadir Marri hinted at the prospected removal of Murad Ali Shah from the principal ministry of Sindh. Responding to the growing speculations that followed, Sohail Anwar Siyal told the media that Marri said what he said in his personal capacity and that he did not represent PPP. He is not an official position holder in Sindh’s ruling party, Siyal said today. The entire PPP including all the party leaders express confidence in the incumbent Murad Ali Shah as CM Sindh. Siyal said this while talking to the media present near Lal Shahbaz Qalandar’s shrine where he visited to see the arrangements. Earlier, Ghulam Qadir Mari, who is said to be a close associate of Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, has called for the replacement of Murad Ali Shah by Zardari’s sister, Faryal Talpur, as the chief minister (CM) of Sindh. “If Benazir Bhutto and Indira Gandhi can run a country, adi [sister] Faryal can also run the CM office,” said Mari while addressing a press conference at his residence in Tando Allahyar. He said the incumbent CM was “inefficient”. “Shah is running the CM office through the Bajaris and Rahupotos,” he alleged. “He has placed three chairs in his office. He sits on one of them, while Bajari and Rahupoto sit on the other two. This is how he is running the affairs,” Mari said, adding that he kept receiving complaints in this regard.
