KHAIRPUR: Pakistan Peoples Party central leader Sardar Latif Khosa has said the federal government is attacking the provinces` autonomy granted to them under the Constitution and claimed that Punjab is more in need of Rangers than Sindh as the situation in the province is steadily going downhill.

Mr Khosa, who is also president of the Pakistan Peoples Lawyers` Forum and a former governor of Punjab, told reporters at the residence of a PLF leader here on Monday that the federal government was harassing the PPP government under a conspiracy which was highly condemnable. It would only weaken the federal government, he added.He reiterated that party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was out of the country because of health issues. As soon as he regained health he would come back. It was in the interest of the country as well as of the people that Mr Zardari had been elected president of PPP Parliamentarians, he claimed.

Mr Khosa said that the PPP government was performing well in Sindh and, therefore, it would not be easy to declare governor`s rule in the province. The PPP had always faced dictatorship with courage and its leadership as well as activists had never thought twice about giving sacrifices for democracy, he said.

He advised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to act as the prime minister of the entire country instead of behaving like a prime minister of Punjab only.He praised the speech of PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari at the 8th anniversary of his slain mother Benazir Bhutto and said whatever he said in the speech was 100 per cent right and represented the aspirations of people.

He said that undue delay in the issuance of a notification for the support price of sugar cane was a great injustice to growers and promised that he would soon talk to the chief minister in this regard.

He rejected as mere allegations all reports about PPP MPAs and MNAs having occupied large tracts of state land and amassed billions of rupees through corruption. `There is no truth in it,`he said.

Khairpur District Bar Association president Shafgat Mahesar, PLF Khairpur president, officebearers and members were present on the occasion.