Those who earlier demanded dissolution of the Sindh government after a lone street crime incident in Karachi are now silent on the recent terrorist activity in Peshawar that killed dozens of people at a mosque.
Sindh Information and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani said this while addressing a press conference. He said that the opponents of the Sindh government who would berate it after every street crime incident should realise after the Peshawar carnage that such incidents can take place anywhere.
The Sindh government had fulfilled its commitment to the bereaved family of slain journalist Athar Mateen and the journalist fraternity of Karachi that his killers would be brought to justice, he added.
Ghani claimed that several persons involved in the killing of the journalist had been arrested and one suspect had been killed by police in an encounter in Kamber-Shahdadkot. He expressed the hope that the arrested suspects would be handed down a stern punishment by courts.
Ghani also expressed gratitude to the people of Sindh for giving a warm reception to the ongoing long march of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) from Karachi to Islamabad. He said that at the same time, the people of Sindh rejected the long march of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) from Ghotki to Karachi.
He also thanked the spiritual followers of Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi who, according to him, had not shown up to support the PTI march. The Sindh information minister maintained that even after crossing Sindh, the march of the PPP was well received by the people of southern and central Punjab.
