BADIN: Police personnel drawn from five districts were deployed at sensitive spots across the rumour-hit Badin district on Wednesday hours after the dissolution of Pakistan Peoples Party’s organisational structure in the area apparently to purge it of supporters of Dr Zulfikar Mirza, an old guard disowned by the party’s high command.

Although the dissolution of the party’s city, union council, taluka and district set-ups as well as various wings by Sindh PPP president Syed Qaim Ali Shah was not taken in Badin as a surprise, the district was rife with rumours with some local party activists fearing a crackdown on pro-Mirza elements and others a violent flare-up between the clearly divided PPP factions in the district.

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The district president, Sardar Kamal Khan Chang, was also removed but speaking to Dawn from Islamabad during the day he claimed that he was tasked with reorganising the party in the entire district.

Published in Dawn, April 23rd, 2015

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