HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that there is no room for a technocrat government in the Constitution.

He also refuted speculations about such a dispensation being under consideration at any level.

Formation of a technocrat government in the country is against the spirit of the Constitution, he said while

speaking at party workers’ programme held here on Friday to mark the 98th birth anniversary of PPP founder chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

The event was organised by the party’s Hyderabad district leader Azhar Siyal.

Khuhro said that his party would not allow formation of any such government because there was no room for it in the Constitution.

“Only elected governments can be installed in the country … no conspiracy to bring in a technocrat government will be allowed,” he said in unequivocal terms.

Khuhro also castigated those who were talking about creation of new provinces from within Sindh and deduction in provinces’ share under resource distribution formula of the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award.

He said that if any conspiracy was hatched against rights of Sindh, the PPP would stand with the masses.

He said that Sindh was also not getting representation in the Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), and told party workers that it would raise this issue in the parliament.

He said PPP believed in continuity of democracy and that no bargain over Sindh’s rights was acceptable to it.

Paying homage to Z.A. Bhutto, Khuhro said ZAB made Pakistan a nuclear power which ultimately enabled the country to hand a military defeat to India recently. A consensus Constitution was also given to Pakistan by Bhutto to run the country in right direction, he said.

He said PPP has a rich legacy of sacrifices rendered by its leaders and workers for the country and Constitution.

He said ZAB’s daughter and former prime minister Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto further strengthened Pakistan’s armed forces by bringing in the missile technology.

Benazir faced trial and tribulations but never gave up, he said, adding that it was Sindh that had led the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD) and made Benazir the prime minister.

Published in Dawn, January 17th, 2026