KARACHI, June 3: Pakistan People’s Party leader Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has rebutted the remarks of Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim about PPP chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto’s return to the country, accusing him of trying to create misconceptions.

“Dr Arbab may be living in fool’s paradise if he feels that when a retired colonel can make him a chief minister, than the dictator like General Musharraf can keep Ms Bhutto away from the country,” said Mr Khuhro, adding that she would surely be returning home. “Even the mentors of Dr Arbab know it well that she is coming to restore power to the people of Pakistan.”

The politicians like the Sindh chief minister would lose their own home seats if free and fair elections were held and people were allowed to cast their votes without intimidation by any state apparatus, he claimed.

Mr Khuhro said that tiny political characters were trying to jack-up their stature unsuccessfully by making comments about the country’s popular leadership.

He said that the PPP and people of Sindh were fully aware of the “loot and plunder by the Arbab family in Tharparkar and other districts.”

He said rumours were doing rounds in the desert dunes that bags full of currency notes had been dumped in the agriculture farms and Otaaqs (drawing rooms). The people’s government, he said, would dig out each and every penny and show the actual worth of Arbab Rahim and his family.