HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party-Parliamentarian (PPP-P)information secretary Moula Bux Chandio has said that his party will not leave Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) alone in this time of trials and tribulations although it was not PPP`s ally.

He congratulated senior PML-N leader and former minister for railways Khwaja Saad Rafique and his other party colleagues for their victory in the recent by-elections and said that PPP would continue to uphold democratic values.

Speaking to reporters here on Monday, Mr Chandio observed that certain federal ministers and other leaders of the ruling party continued to behave like opposition leaders and use unparliamentary language as if they were still unsure having become part of government.

Even Prime Minister Imran Khan did not modify his language and attitude while speaking about leaderships of opposition parties, he said.

`He (the PM) and his ministers must stop hurling insults at respectable leaders of other parties,` he said.

Instead, he added, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf should realise and concede its failure in achieving any success with regard to the commitments it had made with the masses before the July 25 elections.

In contrast to its claims of being competent enough to improve the national economy, the PTI government had so far added a few million to the exchequer by selling away some cars and buffaloes, Mr Chandio remarked.

The senior PPP leader said that it was a matter of least interest for the masses if the prime minister lived in a palace or a small house; their real issue was poverty, hunger and inflation. He noted that the common man was overburdened by a heavy increase in tarif fs of electricity and gas.

Mr Chandio noted that the PML-N was undergoing a difficult time these days, and said that PPP also bore immense pressures from institutions. However, he added, history was witness to the fact that PPP always remained resilient and emerged more powerful after sustaining such pressures.

The PPP leader said that the PTI government was supposed to fulfil its commitment of driving the country out of the energy and water crises by employing all available resources and means.

Commenting on retrenchment of many journalists and other employees from media houses, Mr Chandio expressed his serious concern over the situation and advised the federal government to speak to their employers in order to get them reinstated. `If the government did not do the needful, then PPP and other opposition parties will join the sacked employees` protests,` he warned.

At the press conference, a member of the Cantonment Board Hyderabad (CBH) belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Mohammad Iqbal Memon, announced his joining of the PPP.