Shibli blasts Sindh govt over 'political victimisation', demands Haleem Adil's release.

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI -- Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz said on Monday that Sindh government had arrested Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh on political grounds to victimise him for exposing corruption and its inefficiency.

Speaking at a press conference in the federal capital, he demanded his immediate release and said that the 'inefficient and corrupt' Sindh government had politicised the police by inducting its own people.

He said that arrest of Haleem Adil was also an effort to influence the upcoming Senate elections.

He said that the in the recent by-election in Tharparkar, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf workers were harassed and intimidated by misusing government institutions.

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He said that the plight of Sindh was proof of inefficiency and corruption of the government and Haleem Adil was the person who had been exposing the Sindh government's corruption.

The minister said if an elected member and opposition leader was not safe in Sindh one could imagine the situation that a common man had been facing there.

He said former president Asif Zardari used to claim that there were no political prisoners during the PPP's rule but this was the worst example of political victimization.

To a question, he said that the case against Haleem Adil was politically motivated and not based on law but misuse of power, which could not be accepted.

The minister alleged that the Sindh government was protecting the interests of only one class whereas the poor people especially in the rural areas were facing great hardships and even they did not benefit from PPP's slogan of roti, kapra aur makan.

He said that politics of bullying, violence and terrorism could not be called democracy.

He said Prime Minister Imran Khan had a principled stance since the past over two decades that neither the economy nor democracy or society's ethical values could improve without ending the role of money in politics.

He recalled that the PTI was the only party which expelled its MPAs for selling their votes in 2018.

He said that Imran Khan wanted transparency and fairness whereas his opponents comprising Pakistan...