Next Sindh chief minister, Hyderabad mayor will be PTI men, says Haleem.

HYDERABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's parliamentary leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh has said that Sindh's next chief minister and mayor of Hyderabad will be PTI men.

He said at a large gathering of party workers in Bagh-i-Mustafa ground in Latifabad to mark the 23rd foundation day of PTI on Friday night that the party would contest local bodies elections with its symbol of bat and without forming any alliance.

He said that Imran Khan had become prime minister with masses' support after 23 years' struggle and he was the only true leader of people. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was called peoples' leader but according to Omar Ayub, Bhutto used to call Gen Ayub daddy and the general had made him foreign minister. Bhutto became prime minister at the cost of dismemberment of the country, he said.

Similarly, he said, Gen Chishti discovered Nawaz Sharif and Gen Zia made him a leader. All those who claimed to be peoples' leaders were products of dictatorship. One could not become leader after merely delivering speeches or having just ceased taking 'pacifiers' to become leaders, he said.

He said that half of the ministers in Sindh government including chief minister were facing cases by National Accountability Bureau. The Sindh government received Rs1,000 billion of which Rs957bn were stomached according to the auditor general of Pakistan's report, he said.

He said that even zakat funds were...

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