KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Saeed Ghani on Sunday accused the opposition parties in Sindh of conspiring to foment ethnic violence in the metropolis claiming that the recent protests against the `controversial` Sindh Local Government (Amendment) Act 2021 were actually part of it.

Speaking at a press conference at his camp office the Pakistan Peoples Party leader said: `They [opposition parties] are staging demonstrations against the Sindh local government law merely using it as a pretext just to divert the public`s attention from the real issues of the mass and cause unrest on ethnic grounds.

He said the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was in power in the centre and three provinces while the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) were its coalition partners in the present federal government and all these parties were never seen protesting against the inflation and current economic disaster.

`The genuine issues of the masses are being ignored by the opposition parties in the province as they only chose to do protest against the provinciallocal government law,` he said.

He added, `The PPP is the only political party in the country which in the recent past has staged countrywide protests thrice against the sheer show of incompetence by the present federal government, resulting in an unprecedented hike in the prices of essential products.

But they [opposition parties] are here protesting for ethnic violence. It`s their objective, but we would not let that happen.

He said the PPP`s plan to agitate against the anti-people policies of the federal government would continue and in this connection protests would be held in every district of Karachi, including outside the Sindh Governor House.