January 08, 2008	Tuesday	Zilhaj 28, 1428

HYDERABAD, Jan 7: A leader of PPP and Punjabi settlers in Sindh has lashed out at the Chaudhry brothers for launching an ad campaign aimed at ‘pitting the various ethnic groups in Sindh against each other’.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Munir Ahmed Randhawa demanded an immediate end to the campaign else, he warned, the Chaudhry brothers would face the wrath of Punjabi-speaking Sindhis.

He said the Punjabi settlers in the province would not become ‘stooges’ of the Chaudhry brothers, whose ‘religion is wealth and wealth alone.’

Mr Randhawa urged the government to take notice of the campaign.

Rejecting the allegations levelled in the advertisements, he said it had greatly harmed the interests of Punjabi-speaking Sindhis in the province. He said that not ‘a hair of any Punjabi settler’ had been harmed during the recent disturbances and added that the Punjabi settlers were Sindhis first.

He accused the Chaudhry brothers of complicity in the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto and criticised them and Arbab Rahim for branding the PPP as ‘Zardari party’.

He condemned the formation of a so-called refugee camp by the Chaudhry brothers and claimed that not a single Punjabi-speaking Sindhi had taken refuge in it. “Our life and death is for Sindh,” he added.