PPP’s Nasir Shah apologises to KP CM Afridi for any unpleasant incident

Sindh Local Government Minister Nasir Hussain Shah on Sunday offered an apology to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi for any unpleasant incident that he may have faced during his ongoing visit to Sindh.

“I personally apologise if something unpleasant happened somewhere, as this should not happen,” Nasir Shah said while talking to a private TV channel.

Nasir Shah said “Sohail Afridi is the chief minister of a province and whatever we did, the welcome and all, was in respect of the people of KP as he had their mandate”.

To a question about the apparent change in the Sindh government’s attitude, Nasir Shah said the guests were welcomed and taken care of. He said PTI sought permission to hold a rally at Bagh-i-Jinnah even though it falls under the federal government’s jurisdiction.

He acknowledged that the PTI adopted the proper procedure to seek a no-objection certificate (NOC), which he said also caused delays. Then, the minister said, the issues arose when the NOC got delayed by about 1-1.5 hours, and the PTI announced that they would hold the rally on a road.

Shah added that the Sindh government had even offered the PTI to connect their vendors to them if the preparations were lacking.

Nasir Shah added that if President Zardari did not wish so, the PTI guests would not have been welcomed at the airport or facilitated.