LARKANA: Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, chairman of Sindh National Front (SNF), has said that Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has returned under a ‘deal’ but time is not far when he will escape again.

Mr Bhutto said at a large public meeting in Naudero on Thursday that PPP had lost popularity in Sindh and now only greedy bureaucrats, not the masses, supported the party. He urged Pakistan Army and the country’s rulers to probe what he described as ‘the murder of Begum Nusrat Bhutto’. Seven years ago she was forcibly taken away from her husband’s house and later her dead body arrived. “We are Bhuttos’ heirs and we demand answers to the (unsolved) murders of Mir Murtaza Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto,” he said.

He alleged Mr Zardari had hampered the investigation into Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. The chief investigation officer of United Nations team, which was probing Benazir Bhutto’s murder, divulged to him in a meeting that Mr Zardari was closing all venues to the investigation, he alleged.

“You are responsible for it and we will take revenge,” he said addressing Mr Zardari.

He said that Hakim Ali Zardari had deserted PPP after the party declined to award him a ticket to contest election while his son Asif Zardari had remained president of Zia League’s Nawabshah chapter. He had secured only 1,500 votes in district council’s elections, he said.

Published in Dawn, March 31st, 2017