Former CJs Harmed Sanctity of Judiciary: Saeed Ghani

Sindh Government Had Been Helping Out Some 7.8 Million Low-Income Families

Karachi: Sindh Labour and Human Resources Minister, Saeed Ghani, has said the former chief justices weakened the state institutions and also harmed the sanctity of the judiciary. Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, the Sindh Labour Minister said that Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan was a curse and security threat to the country.

He advised the followers of the PTI that while showing affection for Imran Khan they shouldn’t cause any harm to the country. He said that Imran Khan was acting upon the agenda of anti-Pakistan forces. He said the state institutions should be purged of the pro-PTI elements.

Ghani lamented that in the past a reference had been filed against Justice Qazi Faez Isa in order to prevent his chances of becoming the Chief Justice of Pakistan in the future. He said that perhaps the incumbent CJP hadn’t seen the suffering of Justice Isa in this regard.

He opined that the incumbent CJP should show flexibility in his conduct as a controversial bench shouldn’t make decisions about affairs related to national politics.

Answering a question, Ghani said the Election Commission of Pakistan should have readily issued the schedule for holding by-poll on vacant seats of Karachi soon after the January 15 local government elections local if it wanted that the by-elections should be held before elections for the city mayor.
He said the PPP had won all the five union committees in Karachi where recounting of votes had taken place.

Responding to another question, Ghani said the previous day an industrialist had chosen a small place for disbursing Zakat and food rations among needy people without even informing in advance the district administration and police. He said that it was a tragic incident as the concerned donors and philanthropists shouldn’t adopt such a method for helping out needy people.

He told media persons that the Sindh government had been helping out some 7.8 million low-income families by directly transferring Rs 2,000 to the bank accounts of each of them as a subsidy for purchasing wheat flour.

Also on the occasion, Liaquat Shahi, who served as the chairman of the CBA of State Bank of Pakistan workers for six years, and his associates announced joining the PPP. Shahi will contest the upcoming by-election in the UC 03 of Shah Faisal Colony in Karachi on the ticket of the People’s Party. Shahi expressed full confidence in the leadership of the PPP and expressed gratitude to them for their decision to award him a ticket to contest the upcoming by-poll.

PPP Sindh General Secretary Waqar Mehdi said the People’s Party had formed an alliance with the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) for contesting the upcoming by-poll in UC-3. He said that the next mayor of Karachi would belong to the PPP.