PTI leader says Sindh govt busy embezzling public money.

DADU -- Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) vice president Haleem Adil Sheikh has said that when other provincial governments are trying their best to help their people through the pandemic and make things better for them Pakistan Peoples Party's government in Sindh is busy 'embezzling' billions of rupees in the name of the virus.

Sheikh told journalists after visiting a government boys high school in Gharibabad where he found buffalos and other animals in all classrooms that PPP had destroyed all departments and looted public money in the name of 18th Amendment, which had been passed in 2010 but had played little role in the development of the province.

He said that Rs5.5 billion had been released to Sindh government for improvement of health sector over the past 12 years but no one could see its impact on ground. The Sindh government had progressed only in corruption and nepotism, he said.

Sheikh, who was also his party's parliamentary leader in Sindh Assembly, said that the use of school buildings for keeping animals proved that PPP was an anti-Sindh party which was interested only in looting public resources.

He said that Sindh chief minister should pay some attention to other issues as well besides reading out bulletins on TV channels on coronavirus. Rs2bn had been spent on the construction of a 400-bed hospital in Dadu but it remained non-functional, he said, adding that all 'partners in corruption' preferred building projects because the larger the edifice the bigger the commission.

He said that PPP spokesman Murtaza Wahab was demanding construction of more hospitals but he advised him to first make closed buildings of hospitals functional.

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