LARKANA: Mumtaz urges Shujaat to call nazims’ resignations
By Our Correspondent
LARKANA, Aug 2: Sindh National Front chairman Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has urged ruling Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain to call resignations from district nazims of Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot and the Larkana taluka nazim because the agreement between the SNF and the PML that had led to their election had been violated by local PML leaders.
In a letter sent to Mr Hussain on Wednesday, Mumtaz Bhutto said the PML could not have won the nazims’ seats without support of his party.
He said that under the agreement, an SNF-backed candidate had been elected as the Larkana district nazim.
He said when the naib nazim exposed a plan of supporters of Sindh Minister Altaf Hussain Unnar of syphoning off government money, he was unseated through ‘bogus’ voting. Furthermore, he said, the PML had broken the agreement.
He said the unseating of the naib nazim had been challenged in the High Court Sindh in Karachi, which on Wednesday stayed re-election on the seat.
Copies of the letter were also sent to PML secretary-general Syed Mushahid Hussain and party’s Sindh chapter president Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim.
THREATS: Apa Khurshid Talat Khatyan, a member of the district council, has alleged that she is receiving threats from the Chief Minister’s House to vote for the KPP candidate in the coming election for the seat of the district naib nazim.
Speaking at a press conference here on Wednesday along with Fayyaz Bhutto and Aghani, nazims of union councils of Pir Bakhsh Bhutto and Akil, she said that for three days she had been receiving phone calls without identification number.
“The caller on the other end says he is speaking from the Chief Minister’s House,” she said, adding that he had been threatening her with dire consequences if she would not vote for the KPP candidate.
