KARACHI, Aug 5: Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly Nisar Khuhro on Friday alleged that the chief minister had started threatening PPP leaders of sending army to their homes.

He asked General Musharraf to clarify to the people of Sindh whether he had appointed Arbab Rahim as provincial chief of army staff.

“How General’s chosen chief minister has dreamt of using the army as his mercenary needs to be investigated more seriously than a routine matter,” Khuhro said in a press statement.

Nisar Khuhro asked the Chief Election Commissioner to take notice of the remarks of Arbab Rahim of threatening an army action against the PPP leaders and order a judicial probe into his threats, which were the most blatant form of pre-poll rigging.

Talking to reporters on Thursday in Larkana, Arbab Rahim had said that he would send army to the homes of PPP leaders if they demanded deployment of army during the local body’s elections. His remarks baffled many political observers as many believed that having appalling record of human rights abuses in his own home district, the chief minister had a tacit endorsement of his fresh threats to country’s largest liberal party.

Mr Khurho reminded that while “the PPP leaders and workers had fought with three martial laws over a period of three decades, Arbab Rahim should keep some ‘guts’ for him for the moment when he is made to frog-march in handcuffs from the Chief Minister’s House for his crimes against humanity”.

The PPP leader said that those threatening the PPP leaders of an army operation should note that they cannot survive a single knock on their door by a police head constable.