The Central Vice President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and leader of the opposition in Sindh Assembly, Haleem Adil Sheikh, said that opposition wanted to discuss issue of murders of Nazim Jokhio, Fahmida Sial and death of desperate Gujar Nala affectee Zakia Shahid on the assembly floor by an adjournment motion.
Haleem Adil Sheikh, while speaking to media persons at Sindh Assembly Building prior to the session on Monday, said that joint apposition had submitted a requisition for convening a session to discuss issues being faced by masses in the province including fabricated shortage and inflated prices of wheat flour, deteriorated law and order situation, street crimes, water scarcity, land grabbing and delay in sugar cane crushing.
He said that it was the constitutional and democratic right of the opposition to requisition assembly sessions for taking up issues of public but government while once again denying our right to summon the session with their own agenda.
“If session of the assembly would have been convened timely Nazim Jokhio and Fahmida Sial might not had murdered,” Haleem Adil asserted adding that a PPP MPA was involved in brutal murder of Fahmida Sial as his police guards and vehicles were accompanied with the assassin Shaheed Isran at the scene of the heinous crime.
He said that another son of Sindh Nazim Jokhio was ferociously murdered by a PPP MPA Jam Awais and his father Jam Abdul Karim.
He said that relevant officials were reluctant to conduct a post mortem of the dead body and registration of FIR and it was made possible after intervention of PTI lawmaker Raja Azhar.
Haleem Adil said that all the opposition parties wanted to take up the issue on the floor of the house so that victim families could get justice. “We know that PPP will try to escape but we will not let the treasury benches run away,” he vowed.
Haleem said that once PPP was called the party of martyrs but now it had become a party of murderers as five six Sindh assembly members belonging to the party were under allegations of murders while a few of them also chaired assembly sessions.
Haleem Adil Sheikh while referring to death of Zakia Shahid- a hopeless affectee of Gujar Nala who lost her life due to cardiac arrest after demolition of her house- said that land grabbing was continue on thousands of acres of land in the metropolis in connivance with Sindh government but they did not have land to rehabilitate the poor people who were being dislocated.
Provincial departments and their sub-ordinate authorities were involved in construction of Nasla Tower, Tijori Heights and a number of other illegal buildings in Karachi while common citizens who invested their hard earned money in such projects had to suffer, he maintained.
Parliamentary Leader of Muttahida Qoumi Movement Pakistan Muhammad Hussain said that Sindh government not only passed over joint opposition’s requisition for assembly session but also violated another constitutional requirement of convening meeting of Business Advisory Committee of Sindh Assembly that according to the rule set the agenda of the assembly proceeding for summoned session.
He said that the PPP did not want discussion on problems of the masses and was trying to get away from it.
“ It was an undemocratic and unconstitutional attitude of treasury benches and we will record our protest against it on the floor of the house as well,” he maintained.
Parliamentary leader of Grand Democratic Alliance in Sindh Assembly Husnain Mirza, while speaking at the occasion, said that Sindh government although convening the session while ignoring the opposition’s requisition but it was better late than never.
Certain matters of grave concerns to masses were on the agenda of the opposition and they wanted remedy to provide relief to the people of the province but government kept eluding and meanwhile two heart wrenching incidents of brutal murders took place, Mirza said adding that the entire Sindh was sad and dejected over killing of Nazim Jokhio and Fahmida Sial.
