Imran's govt akin to East India Co: Sindh CM

Sindh's Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday equated the Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan with the infamous East India Company. Speaking at a press conference in Karachi at Chief Minister House, Murad Ali Shah said the federal government was behind the presence of the East India Company-type organisational arrangement in Sindh for remotely carr ying out development works in the province, reported Gulf News. Sindh Chief Minister believed that East India Company, the colonial-era foreign trading entity still exists in his province.

He said the presence of federal government-owned Sindh Infrastructure Development Company Limited (SIDCL) was similar to establishing an East India Company-like commercial entity in his province to carry out federally-funded development works in Sindh, reported Gulf News. He said the presence of SIDCL in the province meant that the federal govet didn't trust his govt. "Formation of this East India Company in Sindh is simply unacceptable to us," he said. "I had last year strongly objected to this East India Company-like intervention in Sindh. My concerns are valid as this company is working with complete disregard for actual requirements of the province," he said. He complained that the federal government had started directly carr ying out development works in the province at the micro-level without consulting his government that is necessar y to prevent duplication of work both by the federal and provincial governments, reported Gulf News.