LAHORE: The PPP has claimed that it is against extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances whether in Sindh or anywhere else.

“We are against extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances wherever these are happening in the country,” senior party leader Senator Farhatullah Babar told the media here on Sunday.

He said the party demanded that all those involved in these crimes be taken to task as per law irrespective of their affiliations. Accompanied by PPP leader from Sindh Taj Haider and Munawwar Anjum, Mr Babar was responding to a query about retracting of words by former president Asif Ali Zardari regarding former Malir police officer Rao Anwar.

Defending Mr Zardari, the senator said that the former president at least had the moral courage to admit that his words in a talk show about Anwar could be taken ill by a section of society so he withdrew the same as well as tendered an apology instead of taking refuge behind excuses.

Mr Haider, while answering a question about the Supreme Court’s orders of sending former Sindh information minister Sharjeel Memon to jail from a private hospital he was admitted to, hoped all those involved in corruption cases would be meted out similar treatment whether they belonged to Sindh, Punjab or elsewhere.

Mr Babar and Mr Haider also paid rich tributes to the services of late rights activist Asma Jahangir, saying in her death the oppressed had lost a reliable support.

Published in Dawn, February 19th, 2018