SUKKUR: Senior leader of Pakistan Peoples Party Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has said that it appears the federal government has no trust in Sindh and its courts and it is deliberately trying to create anarchy in the country by making arrests on the pretext of inquiries being conducted by National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

Mr Shah told journalists outside his residence here on Wednesday that PPP leaders’ cases had been transferred to Rawalpindi which had a chequered history vis-a-vis the Bhuttos. The case should be heard in the area where it had allegedly taken place, he said.

He said that accountability must be subject to the Constitution. Police torture on PPP workers and their arrests outside the NAB office in Rawalpindi was an ugly precedent as the workers had arrived there only to welcome their leaders, he said.

He said that PPP had witnessed such “oppression” for past 50 years but the kind of incidents that took place that day had no precedent even in military-led governments. The PPP would never bow to such tactics as the diehard workers had experience facing worse days, he said.

About Shaikh Rashid’s statement against Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Mr Shah said that he prayed that God protect their leader from all dangers but he also favoured keeping that statement in record.

SUKKUR: Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister Mir Aijaz Hussain also criticised police action against PPP workers who, he said, had gathered in Islamabad only to show solidarity with their leaders but the government subjected them to torture.

Talking to journalists outside his residence in Jacobabad, he alleged that NAB was levelling baseless allegations on their top leaders at the behest of the federal government but his leaders had no fear because their hands were clean.

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Activists of PPP held a demonstration at Moro bypass against the police atrocities against their colleagues in Islamabad.

Published in Dawn, March 21st, 2019