Sindh Information and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani said that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) desires for the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to join the provincial government as the PPP’s coalition partner for working together.
However, Ghani, who is also the president of the PPP’s Karachi chapter, clarified that the recent agreement signed between the two parties does not offer any provincial ministry or the post of the Sindh governor to the MQM.
Addressing a news conference at the provincial assembly, the information minister announced that the PPP has decided to hold a programme at the Teen Talwar roundabout in Clifton on Friday night to celebrate the ouster of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government as a result of a democratic and constitutional struggle.He said the PPP Karachi Division will hold a public meeting titled ‘Jashn-e-Nijaat’ at 9pm on Friday at Teen Talwar to celebrate the end of the PTI’s selected regime.
He congratulated all the relevant political parties of the country, except the PTI, over the success of the democratic and constitutional struggle to rid the country of the anti-people regime.
He welcomed the Pakistani rupee gaining strength against the US dollar and trading at the Pakistan Stock Exchange becoming stable as an immediate result of the downfall of the PTI regime.He also welcomed the decision of the new government of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif to increase the minimum monthly wage of labourers to Rs25,000.
He recalled that in its last budget, the Sindh government had already made such an announcement.He said that different representatives of employers had challenged in court the decision of the provincial government to increase the minimum monthly wage to Rs25,000.
He pointed out that the latest decision announced by PM Sharif will help strengthen the case of Sindh in this regard.
He recalled that during the party’s long march from Karachi to Islamabad that started on February 27, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had made clear his plan to move the no-confidence motion against the then PM Imran Khan.
Ghani said that in his meetings with leaders of the MQM and the Balochistan Awami Party after the submission of the no-confidence motion against him, Khan had not talked about receiving any threatening letter from outside the country or about a foreign conspiracy against his government.
