Affectees of anti-encroachment drive to be resettled, says Rahu.

BADIN -- Sindh Minister for Agriculture Mohammad Ismail Rahu has said that families displaced by the ongoing anti-encroachment drive will be more likely resettled on government land and all functionaries concerned will be asked to do no more damage to the remaining houses of people along the dykes till further court orders.

The minister told journalists at Rahuki, his village, on Thursday that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government was neither itself functioning efficiently nor was it allowing the provincial government to work for people.

He said the country was passing through a critical phase because of the most incompetent rulers of its history since its very inception and people all over the country had already been fed up with it because of record high inflation.

'People are finding it very hard to make both ends meet due to steep rise in prices of all essential commodities thanks to utter failure of the PTI government,' he said.

He said that only true democratic forces, which were on the same page, could take the country out of the present morass and leaders like Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari could steer the country out of the mess being created by 'selected' rulers.

He blamed 'indifferent' attitude of federal government for the financial crisis Sindh government was facing in having work on mega water projects resumed or carrying out more development projects.

He said that when most of the province was badly hit by locusts, the federal government and its plant protection department were not ready to send aircrafts to Sindh for aerial spray despite the fact they had been requested time and again to help exterminate the insects.

Rahu said during a visit a day earlier to the people evicted from the...