Trade leader Atiq Mir has said that his comments implying that Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah should be replaced by his Punjab counterpart Maryam Nawaz were made in joke and not as a serious proposal.
The Sindh government responded to the statement, which was made during a meeting between Karachi traders and Federal Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal. “Give us Maryam Nawaz Sharif for a while and keep Murad Ali Shah,” Mir had jokingly remarked.
Saadia Javed, a spokesperson for the Sindh government, denounced the statement as disrespectful to the will of the people.
“It is bad to call a flatterer the narrative of a knowledgeable and respectable business community; flattering statements cannot change the facts,” she stated. She also charged a particular group.
