BB says that mis-governance responsible for increase in crime

ISLAMABAD—"Mis governance in the country has made the life of ordinary citizens a misery as crime has increased" said Chairperson Pakistan Peoples Party Benazir Bhutto in a statement issued here on Thursday.
She in a statement strongly condemned the murder of the son of an Awam Dost Naib Nazim of Union Council in Larkana the other day.
She said that the PPP demands the early arrest of the culprits adding, 'it was unacceptable that politically protected persons were getting away with crimes committed in day light'.
The former Prime Minister said that this was the result of unrepresentative government.
She assured the people that PPP was fighting to give them the right to elect a government and hold it accountable to the people.
She saluted the PPP workers who had given untold sacrifices to make democracy possible so that the ills of crime, poverty, hunger and unemployment could be redressed and the country embark on the road to prosperity.
Benazir Bhutto also condoled with Haji Khan Abbassi, awam dost N/NazimUC 4 Larkana, whose son's body was found from a rice canal this week.
The 35 year old Mumtaz Ali Abbassi was missing from 9 Oct and finally his dead body was found from a canal. She said that we could only imagine the pain of the parents and family of the young man who went missing and was found dead. The deceased was also tortured before being killed.
The family has said that neither they nor their son had personal enmity with anyone.
She said that the crime situation was so terrible that athree year old girl had been kidnapped and assaulted in the holy monthof Ramadan.
The three-year-old girl who was kidnapped last Friday from Allah BuxTanwari village in Naushero Feroz was found dead.
According to doctors at the Kandiaro taluka hospital, the girl, Tanzeela, had been criminally assaulted.
The PPP had received the news of this dastardly crime with shock and grief. The former Prime Minister said that unless criminals were brought to justice through an impartial investigative and court system, innocent people would suffer.
She said that there should be zero tolerance for crime, especially for crimes against women and children adding that the PPP was struggling for democracy so that a representative and accountable government could alleviate the problems of the people.
Further the former Prime Minister said that people's homes, lives and businesses were being ruined by power shortages. She recalled that the anti people forces always created power shortages because they wished to keep the people entangled in a web of personal problems.
In contrast, every time PPP was elected it finished power shut downs because it wanted the people of the country to have peace of mind in their homes as well as power to fuel their businesses, farms and factories.
Ms Bhutto said that the PPP had signed the lowest deals in the entire world for purchase of power. Unfortunately the anti people forces had politicized the agreements.
Now for double the price power companies were unwilling to establish power stations.
—Agencies