KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Saturday claimed that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) workers breached the Sindh House in Islamabad on direct orders of Prime Minister Imran Khan, and a case of “attacking Sindh province” should be lodged against the premier.

Addressing a protest demonstration to condemn the “PTI attack on Sindh House”, Sindh information minister and PPP Karachi division president Saeed Ghani said that the attack was a planned move which was actually designed by prime minister and interior minister Sheikh Rasheed.

“They [PTI workers] wanted bloodshed and deliberately created the environment to attract reaction from the police force deployed for the Sindh House security,” he said.

“The Sindh police personnel foiled the attempt of the PTI workers, but it was so unfortunate that the Islamabad police stayed silent as spectators amid all that violence and lawlessness. The Islamabad police moved only when the PTI workers failed in their designs and the Sindh police threw them out from the Sindh House,” he added.

He said it was not an isolated move from some “angry PTI workers”, but a deliberate and planned attempt using the federal government machinery. For failing to provide security to the provincial property in the federal capital and conspiring against the peace, he said, the cases should be registered against the prime minister and interior minister.

Published in Dawn, March 20th, 2022