LARKANA: Refuting the charges levelled by Moazzim Abbasi of the Pakistan Peoples Party-Workers (PPP-W), Sindh home minister’s younger brother Tariq Siyal advised him to desist from using indecent language and welcomed the proposal to form a joint investigation team (JIT) to probe Mr Abbasi.

Addressing a press conference at his farm near the village of Faridabad, some 10 kilometres from here, on Monday, he said the PPP believed in serving people, but certain political elements were out to level unfounded allegations and instigate people against the Siyals.

Mr Siyal, a sitting member of the district council and former Bakrani taluka PPP president, said PPP-W chairman Safdar Abbasi, Larkana Awami Ittehad convener Munawwar Ali Abbasi, Moazzim Abbasi and Allah Bakhsh Unnar were maligning the Siyals under a planned policy. But people knew them well, he said.

He alleged that Moazzim was supporting criminals and was wanted in cases of extortion, kidnapping for ransom, encroachments etc. Moazzim Abbasi, he said, had become a “mafia don” of Larkana and harboured criminals in his autaq.

Tariq Siyal alleged that the Abbasis had garlanded dictator General Ziaul Haq while Safdar Abbasi had been collecting money from candidates for issuing party tickets.

He asked Abbasi to stop the politics of mud-slinging, otherwise he would be paid in the same coin. When the Abbasis failed politically, they took shelter in alliances, he said and in the same breath added that the Larkana alliance would be wiped out in 2018’s general elections. He termed the PPP-W a fake party.

Published in Dawn, December 12th, 2017