KARACHI: Opposition leaders in the Sindh Assembly on Saturday emphasised the need for development projects in Sindh by criticising the provincial government’s budgetary allocations of annual expenditures worth Rs.1.2 trillion and annual development funds worth Rs232 billion for the fiscal year 2020-2021. Other leaders including Nusrat Sahar Abbasi, Mohammad Hussain and Halim Adil Shaikh taking exception to Sindh CM Syed Murad Ali Shah’s budget speech claimed that the Sindh chief minister intended to divert attention from actual issues. “He spoke of health and other subjects that would please big-wigs of his party but not about what his vision, if any, was to empower the masses,” said MPA Nusrat Sahar Abbasi. MPA Halim questioned what steps were being taken to provide water, electricity, safe and regular waste disposal, quality and efficient healthcare besides infrastructure development for Karachi and other parts of the province. Similarly, MPA Mohammad Hussain advised PPP activists to disassociate themselves from corrupt elements in their ranks.

Source: Pakistan Today June 27, 2020 17:03 UTC