KARACHI, March 18: Pakistan People’s Party leader and a former federal minister Nawab Yousuf Talpur has criticised Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim for “spitting venom on the judiciary” in his bid to appear ‘more loyal than the king’.

He accused the chief minister of violating all political norms in his flattery for generals.

In a statement issued here on Sunday, Nawab Talpur said: “Dr Arbab, perhaps, doesn’t know that he has to appear before the judiciary for the crimes he had committed against the people of Sindh. He should also know that the files of corruption cases against him are with the NAB but have been shelved for the time being under the instruction of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain.”

Threats to judges, murder of a journalist, smuggling of women, operating private jails in Thar, irrigation water theft, selling away prime urban land worth billions of rupees to his nears and dears were some of the charges Dr Arbab must clarify, he said.

“He should first measure his political stature before dreaming of beating Ms Benazir Bhutto in her Larkana constituency,” the PPP leader remarked.