A regional party?

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No doubt, the PML(N) is big political party but some of its leaders are giving impression that it is a regional party rather than a national party in its thinking. During the last general elections, it won seats only from one province i.e., Punjab out of the total four provinces.

Nonetheless, its top leaders are bent upon to limit it to a regional party. In Sindh, the bad governance of PPP government, law and order situation and its irrelevance towards the betterment of “sons of soil” had created good space for PML(N) to win good number of seats in the next general elections but the recent statement of Mian Shahbaz Sharif demanding Karachi as a separate province in the sensitive Sindh meant to create chaos in the province, created big daunt to the rising popularity of the party despite it was compelled to distance the said statement by calling it “not policy of the party”.

Earlier, the statements of opposition leader in National Assembly and PML(N)’s veteran leader Chaudhry Nisar were sufficient to prove that it has not yet abandoned its regional approach.

The people of Sindh still do not forget that the party’s two governments (a total of six years tenure) did not launch/complete any mega development project in Sindh.

Instead, Mian Nawaz Sharif’s government abandoned the mega development project of Keti Bunder announced by Benazir Bhutto, ex-Prime Minister to save Indus delta – the sixth largest in the world and as per press reports its funds earmarked for the project, were shifted to build Motorway. I suggest that the PML(N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif to bring drastic changes in policy of his party and adopt an approach of national thinking in real sense instead of issuing mere statements.

MOHAMMAD KHAN SIAL

Karachi