January 04, 2008	Friday	Zilhaj 24, 1428

KARACHI, Jan 3: The information secretary of the PPP’s Sindh chapter on Thursday condemned the crackdown on PPP workers and registration of “fabricated cases” against them all over Sindh.

Dr Fehmida Mirza also lashed out at the former Punjab chief minister for injecting ethnicity into violence that swept across the country after Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, and maintained that this would undermine the very foundation of the country.

She said that after the murder of the PPP chairperson the regime had launched a massive crackdown on PPP workers and supporters to pressure them into changing their loyalties and to help PML (Q) candidates.

She demanded that all party workers in Sindh be released forthwith, adding that the rulers should learn a lesson from the history that PPP workers could not be scared by government tactics.

”History is witnessed that PPP workers who are followers of Shaheed Zulifqar Ali Bhutto and Daughter of the East Shaheed Benazir Bhutto never hesitate to sacrifice their lives for the restoration of democracy in the country,” she said.

She claimed thousands of PPP workers had been picked up on false charges by the regime in order to harass the party into submission.

Dr Mirza said there was absolutely no justification for locking up innocent polling agents and workers, and that this way the regime was instigating violence and creating law and order situation to run away from holding election.