PESHAWAR: In a continuation of his inter-provincial engagement, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister CM Sohail Afridi has announced an official visit to Sindh, scheduled for next Friday.
The announcement was made by KP Government Information Advisor Shafi Jan, who stated that the Chief Minister will undertake the visit alongside members of the provincial assembly. This trip follows CM Afridi’s recent visit to Punjab, marking a deliberate outreach to another major province.
The itinerary for the Sindh visit includes key meetings with civil society representatives and the leadership of his political party in the province. A significant highlight of the schedule will be an address by Chief Minister Afridi to the Sindh Bar Association, indicating a focus on engaging with the legal fraternity and potentially discussing matters of inter-provincial coordination and governance.
The announcement comes in the wake of CM Afridi’s return from Lahore, after which he reportedly sent a letter to Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif. While the contents of the correspondence have not been disclosed, it underscores a pattern of direct communication between provincial leaders.
This planned visit to Sindh is being viewed as part of the KP Chief Minister’s broader efforts to foster provincial harmony and strengthen political and administrative ties across Pakistan’s federating units, following the precedent set by his earlier engagement with Punjab.
Meanwhile in a strong statement, Baloch asserted that the move represents a dual-pronged attack. Firstly, he described it as “a conspiracy to interfere in the judicial system and limit the powers of the judiciary,” effectively undermining it at a foundational level. Secondly, he accused the government of weaponizing this tactic to target political opposition. “This tactic is being used to harass political workers and suppress their voices by punishing them in the name of Justice of Peace,” he claimed.
Baloch contextualized the controversy within a longer political struggle, recalling that activists had long fought for the separation of the judiciary from the administration. He argued that the current “imposed fake assemblies,” a veiled reference to allegations of electoral fraud symbolized by ‘Form 47’, are now executing a “systematic conspiracy” to reverse that progress and silence public voice, a move he declared “unacceptable.”
