ISLAMABAD, 29 September 2021, (TON): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday assured the nationalist leaders and veteran politicians of Sindh of the Centre’s support in resolving decades-old crisis in rural parts of the province ruled by the rival Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), political leaders and sources said.

The assurance from the prime minister came at meetings at Governor House where he after performing groundbreaking ceremony of the Karachi Circular Railway spent time with federal ministers, PTI legislators, leaders of allied parties and other prominent politicians of the province.

The most significant development came when former Sindh chief minister and senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Ghous Ali Shah met the prime minister and announced that he was joining the PTI.

The announcement was made in a brief statement issued by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Karachi division, without giving details of the discussion held between the two sides.

Ghous Ali Shah had served as Sindh CM from 1985 to 1988 under General Ziaul Haq’s dictatorship and later as chief executive of the province in 1999 when Nawaz Sharif was prime minister.