Opposition blasts govt in SA over law and order situation.

KARACHI -- As the pre-budget debate in the Sindh Assembly continued on Wednesday, opposition lawmakers criticised the treasury for what it called 'lack of interest' as majority of ministers either remained absent during the session being held so that legislators could forward their suggestion for the budget 2023-24.

In his speech, Mufti Qasim Fakhri, parliamentary leader of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan vehemently criticised the provincial ministers over their 'disinterest' in the pre-budget session and asked as to whom they should give their budget proposals. He said that the pre-budget session was held so that members particularly of opposition benches could forward their suggestions and recommendations for the upcoming budget but the minister did not attend the session.

'I came here to put up my suggestions before the provincial government but after seeing lethargic attitude, I will not give my recommendations as a protest. The only suggestion I am forwarding today is that ministers who don't come to assembly should resign,' the TLP parliamentary leader said. He said that when the ministers cannot sit in the assembly, how will they serve the people. Mufti Qasim said that if the PPP's provincial government cannot run the affairs, it should let the TLP to do so.

Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) Shaheryar Mahar said that the rains had exposed the 'incompetence' of the irrigation department and demanded that the drainage system in Shikarpur should be improved. He said that drainage system was improved a bit in areas of influential people and rest of the Shikarpur was ignored.'If the drainage system was improved, there would not have been so much destruction in the province during the rains,' he added. The GDA lawmaker also...

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