LAHORE, Oct 18: Punjab Senior Minister Raja Riaz says the provincial government will extend full support to the Sindh government in the Karsaz probe if the later requests so.The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), on the other hand, has condemned the registration of second FIR in the case after a lapse of one year and described it as “an act of political victimisation”.

The senior minister told a TV channel that naming certain individuals in the FIR was the right of the aggrieved party. “The investigation will however uncover the real faces behind this act”. He rejected the criticism by the PML-Q leadership on the nomination of Chaudhry Pervez Elahi and said the PPP had the right to lodge FIR against anyone.

Condemning the registration of the FIR, opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Zaheeruddin Khan and PML-Q’s NWFP President Amir Muqaam said the PPP was resorting to such tactics to divert people’s attention from its “failure in solving people’s problems”.

They said the PPP was asking the United Nations to investigate Benazir Bhutto’s murder on the one hand and implicating its political opponents in cases on the other.

They claimed that the PML-Q leadership had never resorted to politics of victimisation during its rule.