JUI-F vows to resume political activities, congregations.

SUKKUR -- Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Sindh general secretary Maulana Rashid Mehmood Soomro on Thursday announced that the party was resuming its routine political, social and religious activities which had remained suspended since mid-March due to Covid-19 outbreak in the country.

He was speaking to the media at the residence of his party's Jacobabad district president Dr A.G Ansari. Maulana Soomro visited the latter's family to offer condolence on behalf of the party leadership over the recent death of his brother.

He also announced that a 'vigorous' movement against the Sindh government would be launched to get people's genuine rights restored. A programme in this regard would be chalked out once the situation arising out of the pandemic improved, he added.

He said all cautions to avoid contracting or spreading coronavirus must be adhered to. He strongly criticised both federal and Sindh governments for their alleged failure to help out millions of people who lost their livelihood to the lockdown.

Plans movement against Sindh government's policies

Maulana Soomro alleged that instead of taking steps to compensate losses suffered by traders owing to the lockdown, the Sindh government resorted to collecting huge amounts of money from them for allowing businesses on a limited scale. He also alleged that after finding all avenues of corruption plugged since long, the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had started usurping the public funds allocated for relief packages like distribution of ration among starving and other deserving people in...