MQM releases white paper for PPP's nine-year performance

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan (MQM-P) at a press conference presented a whitepaper on the nine-year performance of the Pakistan Peoples` Party (PPP) on Wednesday.

Flanked by Mayor Waseem Akhtar and other municipality representatives, MQM-P Chairman Farooq Sattar said: “we are issuing a white paper on the black deeds of the PPP`s nine-year governance,” further adding, “loot and plunder have become a norm under the Sindh government.”

He alleged that despite the fact that metropolis gives the most revenues to the province, Karachi has not been given more than five percent of the funds that the province has received from the federal government.

“Hyderabad, Sukkur and other districts of the province were also adversely affected by the unequal distribution of resources

“Provincial financial commission has not started work from the last nine years. The PPP remains most unfair to Karachi, Urdu speaking, and Sindhi voters of Karachi,” Sattar said.

He reiterated that the injustices by the PPP began from the 1970s as the province was divided into two administrative units by the enforcement of quota system, however, he stressed that the feudals were to be blamed for the issues in the province, not the Sindhi-speaking people.

“The hate and biases must stop now,” he demanded. 

In reaction to the press conference, former chief minister Qaim Ali Shah said that Pakistan Peoples` Party can issue at least 10 whitepapers on MQM. He claimed that no one can even dream of the services his party has given in Sindh, from Karachi to Kashmore.