LARKANA: Former leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah, who has been released on bail recently after remaining in police custody for more than two years, called on Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari in Naudero House on Tuesday.

The party chairman congratulated him over his release and appreciated his firm and principled stand during the long captivity on account of a reference filed against him, his family members and business associates by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

“NAB is the ‘B-team’ of [Prime Minister] Imran Khan and is task with silencing the opposition,” Mr Bhutto-Zardari told the veteran party colleague. “Political victimisation in the name of accountability is creating unrest in the country,” he added.

The PPP chairman during the day visited various union councils of Larkana district to meet party activists and community elders in his constituency.

He told them that the countrywide protest campaign being launched by the party on Friday against price hike, poverty and unemployment would send a message to the world that people had rejected the ‘selected’ government. This campaign, he said, would have “historical importance”. He said people would have to snatch their democratic and economic rights.

Mr Bhutto-Zardari also visited PPP Sindh president Nisar Khuhro’s residence in Nazar Mohalla where he addressed party workers from UC-4 and heard their issues.

At the residence of Pir Abdul Ghaffar Mitha Saen in UC-5, he presided over a meeting which was attended, among others, by MNAs Khursheed Junejo and Apa Naseeba Channa; MPAs Nida Khuhro and Ganhwar Isran; Jamil Soomro, Aijaz Jakhrani, Sohail Anwer Siyal, Abdul Fatah Bhutto, former Larkana mayor Aslam Shaikh and Dr Sakina Gaad.

Published in Dawn, October 27th, 2021