NAWABSHAH, Sept 5: People’s Party Parliamentarian Member of the National Assembly Tariq Masood Arain has said that leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement were hurling death threats. Speaking in a press conference at the local press club here on Monday, Tariq Masood accused Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqi, Transport Minister Aleem Adil Siddiqi, special assistant to the Sindh chief minister, Abdul Rauf, and naib nazim from the Nawabshah UC-5, Zafar Arain, of hurling the threats.

He said the Muttahida leaders wanted him to join their party.

He said that he was an MNA of the PPP and his younger brother, Javed Arain, a candidate of the PPP-backed Awam Dost Panel, was an elected nazim from UC-6, and they would never change their loyalty.

Mr Arain said that he ran a business of air-conditioned coaches from Nawabshah to Hyderabad and Karachi, and added, that police had impounded his eight buses to pressurize him to join the MQM.

He alleged that the Sindh home minister offered him the seats of taluka nazim, along with his brother, during the minister’s visit to Nawabshah after the elections, but he refused.

He alleged that Aleem Adil Siddiqi also called him and asked him to join the party and when he refused, the minister threatened and abused him.

He said the transport minister threatened him to get ready to face consequences like the two slain leaders of the PPP Abdullah Murad and Munawar Suharwardy.

Mr Arain said that he was loyal to the PPP and would never change his loyalty under any pressure by the MQM ministers and activists.

The PPP MNA demanded to the judiciary to provide him justice and security as he could not move freely in his residential area as his life was in danger.

He said that he had filed a petition on Monday at the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad bench, against the Sindh government including its two ministers and special assistant.