SUKKUR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Sindh president Dr Arif Alvi has said that Sindh government is hell bent on removing IGP A.D. Khowaja as it wants to turn the province into a police state and ensure win in upcoming general elections.

Dr Alvi said at a press conference at Sukkur Press Club late on Friday evening that Pakistan Peoples Pany was afraid of growing popularity of PTl in Sindh and that was why it was harassing the party workers and raising obstacles to PTI`s public meetings.

He said the PTI`s public meeting in Ubauro, the seventh gathering in the province so far, would also be a big success like the rest.

He rejected PPP`s complaint of doublestandards in treatment of corruption suspects and said that whenever Sharjeel Memon returned to the country he was feted by PPP and presented golden crowns and likewise whenever disqualified premier Nawaz Sharif had to come back to appear in courts he was given VIP protocol.

Dr Alvi said that if Sindh government could get away with its attempt to ban NAB in Sindh it would have permanently eliminated NAB law to save its `thieves`.

About MQM-P and PSP, he said that in reality there was no clash between the two factions which were increasingly coming closer to each other. Those who used to collect extortion were joining the PSP to become `clean` but people remembered their past well, he said.

He expressed solidarity with the people who were being ejected from their houses on dykes of canals and said nobody should be removed without provision of alternative place.

PTl would not allow forcible ejection of people from their settlements because the anti-encroachment operation was only targeting poor and hapless people who did not have support of influential persons, he said.