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Reason behind Sindh’s poverty not resource deficiency, but unrestrained corruption: PM Imran

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GHOTKI: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said the reason behind poverty of people of Sindh was not lack of resources but highflying embezzlement, ARY News reported.

“Unrestrained graft has pushed people in the province deeper into poverty,” PM Imran Khan said in a meeting with members of allied political parties at house of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) member Sindh Assembly Ali Gohar Mahar in Ghotki.

He said the mission to expose corruption and plundering was designed in collaboration with the allied parties. “We jointly have to take this mission to a decisive end.”

Premier Khan said state institutions were ruined for personal gains. He said the allied parties had welcomed the PTI’s manifesto, which needed to be implemented.

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He asked the public representatives to point out issues of people and play an active role in their resolution.

The prime minister said the federal government would make every cooperation with them for resolution of issues of people of Sindh.

They also discussed the measures taken by the federation for welfare of people.

Slamming the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said on Saturday Sindh’s money was spent in Dubai and London.

“Sleeping pills have become inadequate for Khursheed Shah since Prime Minister Imran Khan has arrived in Sindh,” the minister tweeted in response to the PPP leader’s criticism of the government earlier in the day.

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