F.P. Report
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said Wednesday that some unscrupulous elements are trying to give linguistic colour to the murder of Irshad Ranjhani, as a matter of fact it was a murder of a human being and has been handled as per law of the land.
This he said after inaugurating Mir Ghulam Mohammad Talpur Degree College in Tando Bago, District Badin. He was accompanied by Education Minister Syed Sardar Shah. The chief minister said that he had nothing to do with the nationality with which Irshad Ranajhani belonged to and which language he was speaking, but the way he was killed in cold blood was a crime against humanity, an open challenge to the writ of the government and seemed to be no respect for law of the lad. “I’ll not spare anybody who would take law into his hand,” he said.
Shah said that he had felt that some unscrupulous elements were trying to give linguistic colour to the murder of Ranajhani. “This is not a linguistic issue but it was a crime against humanity and the law has taken its due course,” he said. “Now body would be allowed to create hatred in the society,” he said and went on saying the people living in Sindh irrespective of the language they were speaking and the religion they were practicing were Sindhis and they were his brothers and their life and property would be protected accordingly.
Talking about the murder of three laborers at Larkana, Shah said that it was an inhuman act and he had directed the police to unearth the culprits and register cases against them under Anti-terrorism Act. “I would not allow them to destroy peace and tranquility in the province,” he said and told the media that he had directed Commissioner and DIG Larkana to contact to the heirs of the decease person and make necessary arrangements to shift their bodies to their respective villages.
“I have asked the DIG to send his police team with the bodies to their villages and offer condolence with them on behalf of him,” he said and also directed him to assure them [aggrieved families] that the culprits would be brought to book.
FAKE ACCOUNT CASE: Replying to a question, the chief minister said that when the name of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto and his name had appeared in the JIT report the chief justice had questioned the FIA veracity of the report.
The chief justice had directed the FIA to take out the name of Chairman PPP and the chief minister from the report, but these directives were not translated into the judgment. “We have challenged the JIT and it has become controversial,” he said.
SHORTAGE OF FUNDS: To another question, the chief minister said that the federal government had failed to achieve its recovery targets. As a result, the provincial government (s) was facing financial crisis but even then, his government would meet its commitment of development. “I have brought my concerns in the knowledge of the federal government to improve the efficiency of the FBR; otherwise, the size of divisible pool would narrow down further and cause massive damage to the development endeavor of the provinces,’ he said.
He disclosed that 82 percent of the provincial government budget was provided by the federal government from the divisible pool, straight transfers etc. “If the federal government fails to achieve its revenue collection targets ultimately, the provincial governments would suffer,” he said.
