In a discursive speech during a gathering at Akbari ground in Latifabad, Dr Farooq Sattar, the party chief, attempted to stir the crowd’s passion. “Our competition isn’t with any pidi [dwarf],” he said tacitly referring to Pak-Sarzameen Party’s (PSP) Chairman Mustafa Kamal. Sattar said if fair and transparent population census and delimitation of the constituencies was allowed in Sindh, the MQM-P would win enough seats in the Sindh Assembly to elect its chief minister in the 2018 elections. He said that urban Sindh contributed 70% to the federal tax revenue and 85% to the provincial revenue, but, disproportionately lesser funds were earmarked for Sindh’s urban development. Speaking on the occasion, party’s senior deputy convener Amir Khan said all the tactics of the PSP to fail the MQM-P’s event foundered.

Source: The Express Tribune December 09, 2017 05:26 UTC