Amid alarming rise in Sindh's Covid-19 cases, PTI slams PPP for 'misguiding' people.

KARACHI -- With over 1,000 tested positive for coronavirus across Sindh on Saturday, the provincial leadership of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf said that although the prime minister had not forced the provinces to follow the federal government, the PPP-led Sindh government was deliberately misguiding the people to put the burden of its bad governance on the centre.

The leaders of the key opposition party in the province also blamed the PPP for exploiting ethnicity for its political gains, putting national unity at risk.

They called corruption and bad governance in the province as key reasons behind poverty and panic in the wake of coronavirus pandemic.

'The prime minister has given the right of decisions to all the provinces,' PTI leader Khurram Sher Zaman told a press conference at his party's Insaf House headquarters here.

'You can see that Punjab and Balochistan have made their own decisions. But when it comes to Sindh, the chief minister turns hostile. They only want to pretend that they want to do best for the people but the federation is preventing them from doing so. It's absolutely wrong and unfair. The people of Sindh have suffered irreparable loss due to the PPP government,' he said.

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Party leaders MNAs Aftab Siddiqui, Alamgir Khan, Aslam Khan, Fahim Khan, Akram Cheema, Aftab Jahangir, Saif-ur-Rehman, MPAs Jamal Siddiqui and Shehzad Qureshi and others were also present.

Zaman said that children of Sindh were dying of hunger and dog bites.

'Only two days ago a boy, named Zeeshan, from Larkana died helplessly. In 70 per cent of Sindh, water is not drinkable. In the current scenario of progress and growth, even KP and Balochistan have made significant progress. Our province of Sindh is lagging far behind,' he added.

He blamed the PPP government in Sindh for promoting 'hatred of ethnicity' for its political gains but warned that the politics of hatred had already cost many lives in the country, which could not afford it anymore.

'They [PPP government] know well how to spread hatred and perform very well in this area,' he added. 'Anyone who questions their performance and asks about governance, he or she is declared anti-Sindh or anti-democracy. We would not stop raising questions and make them accountable for their mandate.'

The PTI leaders also reiterated their demand for immediate reopening of businesses in the province so traders could be saved...