Firdous Shamim, Haleem lash out at Sindh govt, assure of fair probe into plane crash.

KARACHI -- Opposition leader in Sindh Assembly, Firdous Shamim Naqvi, and Parliamentary Party Leader in Sindh Assembly, Haleem Adil Shaikh, vehemently criticizing the Sindh government for its poor performance, on Wednesday. When the PIA Airbus A320 crashed there was not a single ambulance of the provincial government was there to deal with the causalities at the site of incident. Questioning the performance of the provincial government, they asked has there even a single government hospital equipped with cold-storage facility to place at least 200 dead bodies at one time. They stated this while addressing a press conference at Iqra University Campus along with Headof Baitul Mal Sindh Hunaid Lakhani here. Firdous Shamim Naqvi said two major airplane crashes were witnessed in PPP-led governments. He said the former rulers had devastated the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) by recruiting more than 4500 surplus staff. He said when the government of PPP started the loss of PIA was Rs 35 billion. While in the government of Nawaz Sharif the estimated loss of PIA was Rs 500 billion. He said local and foreign experts were probing the causes of the plane crash. He further said there were no sufficient ventilator operators in the mega-city. Firdous Shamim said they would expose massive corruption in all departments of the Sindh government. He said Nisar Khuhro presented the statement of Sindh governor Imran Ismail out of context, adding, they had demanded to implement...