KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party chairman Mustafa Kamal has said there will be no use of conducting counterterrorism operations in the country when corrupt rulers and bureaucrats are “killing” innocent people without firing a single shot.

Speaking at a press conference at the PSP headquarters on Monday, the PSP chairman also lashed out at PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Muttahida Qaumi Movement founder Altaf Hussain for sowing seeds of “terrorism” in society.

“Corrupt rulers and government officials are the real terrorists and they deserve the punishment being awarded to terrorists. They are killing people without firing a single bullet,” he said, adding: “if this situation persists then no one would ever eliminate the menace of terrorism in the country.”

The PSP chief also criticised K-Electric.

Mr Kamal questioned why the corrupt rulers and bureaucrats who were looting the country could not go “missing”.

“If you can’t take action against the rulers then what is the purpose of killing terrorists?” he asked.

He said instead of “having” a common man “disappeared” who had been used in a terror activity because of poverty and the rulers’ corruption, those rulers who laid the foundation of terrorism should have gone “missing” and “killed”. He went on to say that everything would be sorted out if only four rulers and bureaucrats would go “missing”.

He said it was the responsibility of the authorities concerned to recover the “missing” persons, bring them to national mainstream and send them to their loved ones so that no one could politicise the issue.

The PSP chief strongly criticised MQM founder Altaf Hussain and said that he became the self-declared father of the Mohajir nation. “If he [Altaf Hussain] is the father of the Mohajir nation then we are not even Mohajir.”

Repeating his allegation that the MQM founder worked for Indian intelligence agency RAW, he asked MQM-Pakistan chief Dr Farooq Sattar to ask Senator Dr Farogh Naseem whether Mr Hussain was a RAW agent or not as the senator was not only present in every meeting but also contested the case on behalf of Mr Hussain.

He said Mr Hussain was sitting abroad and busy in hatching a conspiracy to divide Pakistan.

“He cannot do any harm to Pakistan but he is misusing the name of Mohajirs.”

Mr Kamal’s allegation came against the backdrop of a live video stream on Facebook on Sunday in which Mr Hussain used harsh words against the former Karachi mayor for what he termed was betrayal.

Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2017