HYDERABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-iInsaf senior leader Dr Arif Alvi demanded on Sunday empowerment of local council representatives and amendments to the Sindh Local Government Act, 2013.

A provincial finance commission should be constituted, because, at present only one individual, minister for local bodies, was having control over all finances, said Dr Alvi while talking to journalists at a party leader`s residence here on Sunday.

He said that Murad Ali Shah had completed 100 days as chief minister of the province but he had failed to bring any significant change in governance. Both the MQM and the PPP were equally responsible for the prevailing state of affairs in Sindh where education and health sectors had completely collapsed, he said.

He said that the two parties had exploited the issue of quota for political gains while PPP sold jobs and MQM distributed them among its sector in-charges but now PTI would bury their politics in Sindh for good.

He proposed building a 303-km Karachi-Bisma-Uthal road to connect Sindh with China-Pakistan EconomicCorridor in the larger interest of the province because it would connect two ports of Sindh with the western route of CPEC.

Dr Alvi said that thanl(s to PTPs consistent struggle Panamagate had become a major issue today and PTI fully trusted Supreme Court in this regard. The judgement of the apex court would be historic though the judiciary`s image had been tarnished by its verdicts in Molvi Tamizuddin Khan and Z.A. Buhtto cases, he said.

He said that prime minister`s speech and his family members` statements on the issue contradicted each other and it should be probed first.

He said that Qatari prince who also owned 49 per cent shares in Port Qasim`s coal plant had business partnership with Nawaz Sharif crony Safiur Rehman`s son.

He said that a senior PML-N leader disclosed to him that initially attempts were made to obtain a letter from a Dubai prince but he refused. Then they contacted the Qatari prince to whom Nawaz Sharif claimed to have given a surprisingly huge amount without any documentation, he said.

He denied reports the party had approached Aitzaz Ahsan for pleading the Panamagate case in the SC.