LARKANA: Sindh Minister for Food and Parliamentary Affairs Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that both Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have reached a dead end and find them in a closed alley in their tug of war over the Panama Leaks issue.

Talking to journalists at the Larkana Press club here on Monday, Mr Khuhro said that Imran who was givingunwelcomeadvicetoPakistan Peoples Party to make use of minusone formula has himself been `subtracted` from the party by its senior leader Justice Wajeehuddin.

Mr Khan was a close aide of retired Gen Pervez Musharraf, who had coined the term minus-one formula. Musharraf had said while referring to Benazir Bhutto that any individual living abroad would not be eligible to lead a political party, he said.`But the ground reality is that PPP is very much here while Musharraf is out of the country and is minus himself. Mr Khan should learn a lesson from this and bear in mind, PPP was, is and will remain here but Imran himself stands defeated morally,` he said.

He said that as PPP founder Z.A Bhutto had said that only people wielded the power to decide a party`s popularity. On the one hand Mr Khan did not recognize Mian Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister while on the other he sent his colleagues to represent the party at the All Parties Conference, he said.

Imran, who met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was himself responsible for weakening the Kashmir cause. The Sindh Assembly passed a resolution to initiate proceedings against Altaf Hussain but the federal government kept mum on it as well as on the Musharraf case, he said.

About lifting of ban on jobs, the minister said the government wasset to offer jobs to over 90,000 educated youth, out of which 50 per cent seats would be filled through promotions and 50 per cent would be filled on the basis of merit. All closed schools would be opened after fresh recruitments, he added.

About the killing of a young engineer Waqar Bhutto in an alleged police encounter in Pano Akil, the minister demanded an impartial probeintotheincidentandsaid that he had heard there were torture marks on the victim`s body.

`Rampant copy culture harmed education` Mr Khuhro said while presiding over a convention titled `voice of parents` here on Sunday that rampant`copy culture`had doneirreparable harm to quality of education and all stakeholders, including administration, teachers and parents were responsible for it.

He said the government was making sincere efforts to improve education in the province. The convention was organised by Alif Ailaan, anon-governmental organisation.

Mr Khuhro urged people to come forward to augment government efforts and said that `each one, teach one` practice could bring a revolution in educating society.

He urged students` parents to ensure that funds for school management committees were utilized properly in schools and advised the jobless youth not to depend on government jobs alone but improve their technical skills to earn jobs in private sector as well.

PPP MPA Khursheed Ahmed Junejo, Prof Mukhtiar Ahmed Samoo, Junaid Ahmed Dehar and Sajad Ali of Alif Ailaan said that SMC funds were mostly misused and quality of education in government schools was poor.

SHIK ARPUR: Mr Khuhro said at a press conference at Shikarpur House that PTI chief found himself in a closed alley due to continued agitation on roads and the prime minister had also reached a dead end over the Panama Leaks issue.