PTI files resolution in PA to stop Dec 27 Larkana rally.

KARACHI -- The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has approached the Sindh Assembly to stop the Pakistan Peoples Party from holding a public meeting in Larkana on Dec 27 on the occasion of 13h death anniversary of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto as the event is all set to turn into an another power show of the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM).

It submitted a resolution in the Sindh Assembly against the scheduled rally calling for is cancellation amid growing cases of Covid-19.

MPAs belonging to the PTI led by their senior colleague and party's Karachi president Khurram Sher Zaman submitted the resolution before the Sindh Assembly secretary demanding cancellation of the Dec 27 rally and accusing the opposition parties of endangering people's lives for their political gains.

They called it 'selfishness of PDM leaders' who they said were deliberately risking the lives of millions for their 'personal agenda'.

'Corona cases are on the rise across Pakistan and Sindh tops among other provinces in the second wave of the pandemic,' said Mr Zaman while talking to the media at the Sindh Assembly building after submitting the resolution. 'We are seeing every day that numbers [of Covid-19 cases] are increasing. This province [Sindh] has one of the highest rates of corona cases in the country. On one hand, Covid-19 is on the rise and businesses are being penalised for violating safety guidelines and on the other hand the parties are staging rallies and public gatherings.'

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Accompanied by MPAs Shehzad Qureshi, Bilal Ghaffar and Raja Azhar, he said that the 'incompetent' Sindh government, which was aggressively toeing the lockdown policy and forcing people to stay indoors during the first wave of the pandemic, was inviting people to come out of their homes and...