PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Senator Dost Mohammad Mehsud has demanded of Prime Minister Imran Khan to immediately impose governor’s rule in Sindh province to stem conspiracies against the federal government.

In a statement issued here, Senator Mehsud said that the PPP-led provincial government was engaged in conspiracies by trying to buy loyalties of the members of parliament while offering them huge sums of money from the provincial kitty to tilt the numbers against the prime minister in the no-confidence motion.

“The blatant series of constitutional, legal and political violations against the federation is being carried out by the handpicked Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah at the behest of his mentor Asif Zardari,” he said.

The senator alleged that according to credible reports thousands of Sindh policemen in plainclothes were on way to Islamabad to pressurise the federal government on the day of no-confidence motion by creating disorder and chaos in the federal capital.

He added that there were reports of many MNAs being held hostage at the Sindh House, Islamabad, under the custody of Sindh police and ‘Zardari goons’.

Senator Mehsud asked the interior minister to take notice of the unfolding dangerous situation at the Sindh House and demanded deployment of Rangers and FC there in order to timely avert any confrontational situation planned by the Sindh government.

The statement quoted the senator as saying that Pakistan was a federation as per 1973 Constitution in which the federating units had to work in unison with the central government to ensure smooth functioning of the governance and they could not become part of any ploy, conspiracy or abetting illegal and unconstitutional move against the federal government.

He alleged that the Sindh CM had declared a war on the federation and was threatening the centre-appointed PSP officers to comply with his orders otherwise they would be sent packing.

He added that the Sindh police had been dumped with thousands of recruits having criminal background.

Published in Dawn, March 18th, 2022