Senior Pakistan People's Party leader Dr Zulfiqar Mirza has announced to resign from all party/government posts, Geo News reported Sunday.Addressing the news folk at Karachi Press Club, he accused Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik of siding with the killers, misleading the party leadership, and contorting facts. He declared him an enemy of the state and a compulsive liar.
Addressing the news folk at Karachi Press Club, he accused Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik of siding with the killers, misleading the party leadership, and contorting facts. He declared him an enemy of the state and a compulsive liar.
Malik is a compulsive liar and responsible for Karachi bloodshed, Mirza said, adding Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) doesn't have a real mandate in Karachi or Hyderabad, they extort votes at gunpoint.
Levelling another very serious allegation against MQM Chief Altaf Hussain, he said: "During a meeting with Altaf Hussain in London he (Altaf Hussain) said the US wanted to disintegrate Pakistan and he and his party (MQM) would side with the US in their goal. Therefore, Altaf Hussain said he would kill the Pathans".
Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza went on to say: "Altaf Hussain wrote a letter to the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair asking him to bust ISI before it produces any more Osama Bin Ladens."
He asked as to what sin was committed by Wali Khan Babar, a Geo News (Private TV Channel) reporter who was murdered in Karachi.
Mirza said five accused who were involved in the killing of Wali Khan Babar belonged to MQM and named one of them as Liaquat who, he said, was still at large. "Liaquat is the one whose car was used in the killing and he was the one who opened fire on Wali Khan Babar."
"MQM is the killer of Wali Khan Babar," he reiterated.
He said MQM had held hostage all industrialists, businessmen and shopkeepers of Karachi.
Dr. Mirza also alleged that the present CPLC Chief Ahmed Chinoy holds an important position in Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF) which is a welfare wing of MQM.
Before starting the press conference he swore on the Holy Quran to tell the truth and nothing but the truth.
Praising ISI and Pakistan Army Mirza said Pakistan's existence is due to the sacrifices of our security forces.
Senior provincial minister, Works & Services Dr Zulfiqar Mirza is the Vice President of PPP Sindh and also a Central Executive Committee member besides a close aide of President Asif Zardari. He was elected from Sindh Assembly seat PS-57 Badin I.
Malik is a compulsive liar and responsible for Karachi bloodshed, Mirza said, adding Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) doesn't have a real mandate in Karachi or Hyderabad, they extort votes at gunpoint. Pledging at the beginning he requested reporters to take him seriously for the first and the last time. He arrived at the Karachi Press Club at 4:20pm. The best decision of my life is to marry Dr Fehmeda Mirza, he said.
Mirza noted that he has never bend the laws and he follows the principles of Shaheed Zulfiar Ali Bhutto. Allah Almighty through Mohrarma Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari blessed me with all that I own.
He added that I see eye to eye with my party. I'm a party worker and will always be that way. I am a Sindhi and proud of it, he added. He vowed never to bow down to cruelty.
Mirza said if anything happens to me then killers of Imran Farooq and Wali Baber would be responsible.
Mirza's press conference ended at 6:15 pm which started around 4:25 pm.
Dr. Mirza also alleged that the present CPLC Chief Ahmed Chinoy holds an important position in Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF) which is a welfare wing of MQM. He said he was sorry for his earlier comments for the people who had migrated from India. He said he respects Urdu speaking people and that many of his close relatives are also Urdu speaking.
He said that those people who want to breakup Pakistan are pitiful. He hoped that the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry would summon him in the hearing of the case regarding Karachi target killings.
President Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Sindh chapter and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah Sunday accepted the resignation of Dr Zulfiqar Mirza from the post of senior vice president PPP Sindh chapter, our sources reported.
Meanwhile, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq said statements of Zulfiqar Mirza are his personal and Pakistan People's Party has nothing to do with it, our sources reported.
Replying to allegations against Interior Minister Rehman Malik she said that he will defend himself and will reply to these at an appropriate time. Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Sunday that the allegations levelled by Dr Zulfiqar Mirza against Interior Minister Rehman Malik are a matter of his personal opinion.Talking to journalists, she said Mirza has resigned due to personal reasons .She said the agenda of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is consultation with others and the party believes in political solution through dialogue by taking all stakeholders into confidence.
She said the first priority of the federal government is to restore peace in Karachi.“Party’s decision cannot be influenced by personal opinion of any individual.PPP has a system of its own to take decisions and these cannot be changed an opinion of an individual.”
She said the disciplinary committee of the Pakistan People’s Party prepares a policy and it is leadership that ensures implementation of the party discipline” . To a question about the kidnapping of Shahbaz Taseer, she said law and order is a provincial subject.
She said the Federal Government is willing to help the authorities in their efforts to attain peace.
Zulfiqar Mirza said that he would remain a loyal worker of the PPP. He said if something happened to him those behind the Karachi killings and those behind the murder of Dr Imran Farooq would be responsible for it. He said that he would spend the rest of his life fighting for the rights of the oppressed people of Sindh.
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