Rulers tying to gag voice of people, Haleem tells presser.

KARACHI -- The rulers are trying to gag the vioce of people of Sindh, said Leader of Opposition in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Shiekh here Wednesday.

Addressing a crowded press conference in Sindh Assembly while being flanked by MPAs Raja Azhar, Ali Aziz GG, Shahnawaz Jadoon, and Dr Seema Zia, he said they tried to fright him by putting him in jail, but Allah, the Almighty, granted him further courage. He said that no one could gag the vioce of people. He said Sindh is drowned into floodwater, but the PPP was trying to manage media and social media so that no one could raise voice against them.

Adil said that a terrorism case was lodged against a senior citizen in Naushehro Feroze because he dared to protesr. He said: "It is hieght of cruelty that in Sindh wheat flour is being sold at Rs120 per kilogramme. Advertisements of millions of rupees were issued for subsidized flour at Rs 65 per kilogramme but this flour is available nowhere. He said a minister claimed that seven hundred stalls had been established for Sasita Atta. He said we got investigated it and knew that no one was willing to buy this substandard flour. He said the rulers were trying to put Rs26bn subsidy on wheat flour in their pockets, like tractor subsidy and Omni Group subsidy.

Haleem said that millions of flood affected people in Sindh are sitting under the open sky, but the relief aid had not reached to them. He said that the government had claimed that more than 300,000 tents, 2,800,000 mosquito nets, cooked food and other relief goods had been distributed among them but the facts ertr contrary to it.

He said in audio leak of Nawaz Sharif, they talked about importing machinery from India. He said that...