Says government must clear its stance over growing tensions between S Arabia and Iran
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Saturday that the Sindh government’s slackness towards deaths of malnourished children in Tharparkar was shameful and unforgivable.
The PTI chairman said that people in Sindh were forced to consume impure water. Children were dying of consumption of impure water, he added. Khan said the provincial government was responsible for the deaths and its slackness was an unforgivable crime. He said the health centres and dispensaries in Tharparkar were lying dysfunctional.
The death toll was surging owing to lack of proper medical facilities, he added. Earlier on January 8, the PTI chairman had demanded of the government to play a role to ease tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran instead of being a party to it.
Briefing the media after meeting Saudi and Iranian ambassadors separately, the PTI leader said that both the countries were blaming each other for the tensions. He said the government must clear its stance over growing tensions between the two Muslim countries. Khan said Pakistan must not be a part of anyone else’s proxy war. He also said that Iran should have been taken in confidence over Saudi’s 34-country alliance against terrorism. He said the threat of sectarianism would loom over Pakistan if the tensions in the Middle East rise.
He said the prime minister’s ‘Indian friend’ had blamed Pakistan’s intelligence agencies for Pathankot airbase attack. While criticising Nawaz Sharif’s growing terms with Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, he said an enemy was better than such a friend.
