Jalal Mahmood Shah speaks at the event on Monday. White Star
KARACHI: Criticising the Pakistan Peoples Party for its “surreptitious” approval of the PIDA ordinance, Sindh United Party (SUP) leader Syed Jalal Mahmood Shah said on Monday that the federal government had begun “occupying” the islands of Sindh and Balochistan beginning with Bundal and Buddo.
He was speaking on the Pakistan Islands Development Authority Ordinance at a one-day national conference on the subject organised by the SUP at a hotel here on Monday.
In his welcome address, Mr Shah said the government of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Aug 31 came up with the Pakistan Islands Development Authority Ordinance, ignoring the Constitution. Betraying (dhokey bazi kertey huay) the people of Sindh, the PPP and the federal government kept the ordinance a secret until it was published in the Pakistan Gazetteer in September. This proves that the federal government is eying the islands of Sindh and Balochistan