LAHORE, March 7: PPP secretary-general Jehangir Badr on Sunday held the Sindh government responsible for the murder of PPP MPA Abdullah Murad, calling upon the chief minister to quit or the powers that be should dismiss him without delay.
At a news conference here, he said the PPP lawmaker had been targeted because he had raised the issue of humiliation and subsequent murder of two women in Sindh. The police officer Abdullah Murad had spoken against, he said, was very close to the Sindh chief minister.
NWFP PPP president Khwaja Mohammad Khan Hoti and Ms Bhutto's spokesman Munawwar Anjum were also present at the news conference. Asked whether the Sindh chief minister should be arrested for his alleged involvement in the murder case, Mr Badr said the other option available to the chief minister was to prove his innocence.
He said the investigating agencies should pin the responsibility of the murder on the accused. However, he said, circumstances established it beyond doubt that the chief minister was responsible for the murder.
Azhar: Dissident PML-Q leaders Mian Azhar and Syed Fakhr Imam will meet leaders of other parties to discuss with them problems facing the country and evolve a national consensus for their solution.
At a meeting at the residence of Begum Abida Husain, the two leaders said rulers had become hostage to "files of their corruption cases" because of which despondency and uncertainty was growing by the day.
The situation could be rectified, they said, only if patriotic leaders come forward. They agreed to mobilize public opinion against the government policy of pushing political leaders to the wall.
"This is the time to take everybody along, not to create disunity," they said. The PML-Q leaders said because of lack of justice, criminals were moving and acting at will. However, for the situation was quite under control.
Mian Azhar and Fakhr Imam said a solution to all problems lay in complete democracy, and this would not be possible unless the constitution and parliament were given supremacy.
