PTI leader blasts Sindh govt for holding Centre responsible for wheat flour crisis.

KARACHI -- Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) Vice President Haleem Adil Sheikh has said that the Sindh government, instead of controlling the wheat flour crisis, is making misleading statements. Addressing a press conference here outside the Sindh Assembly on Monday, alongside PTI MPAs Dr Saeed Afridi, Rasibtan Khan, Ali Aziz, Malik Shahzad Abbas Jaffery, Bilal Ghafar, Riaz Haider, Adeel Ahmed and others, he said the wheat flour crisis had gone from bad to worse during the last three to four days, but the government of Sindh was blaming the federal government to hide its own incompetence. 'Corruption is a disease from which the ruling PPP is infected,' he commented. 'We have already told the people which elements are behind this crisis. The politics of PPP begins with corruption and finishes on corruption,' he alleged. He said there was a shortage of medicines in the Sindh health department. Besides that cases of AIDS/HIV and dog bite were being reported from all over the province. He said Karachi, the megacity, had already turned into a big heap of garbage. Sheikh said in fact these rulers had left no stone unturned to increase hunger and poverty in Sindh through their corrupt practices. He said even if they find out they have an opportunity to embezzle funds meant for gutter cleaning, they would eagerly grab it. The PTI leader said that no procurement of wheat was made last year. He said this mafia stocked wheat and sold it when rates were higher. Resultantly, the poor people have to suffer a lot. He said the NAB had already recovered Rs8billion after arresting some characters of wheat flour corruption mafia through plea bargain. He said that the NAB had also recovered wheat of worth Rs10billion. He said the rulers of Sindh were befooling people of...