KARACHI: Rejecting the MQM-P allegations, Sindh Senior Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party leader Sharjeel Inam Memon has said that the MQM-P criticises his party only to “revive its dead politics”. In a statement on Thursday, he said Karachi traders had expressed full confidence in PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and thanked him for ensuring that they “no longer receive extortion slips or find bodies in gunny bags”.

According to him, MQM criticises only to provoke a response, hoping to increase its political stature.

In his separate statement, Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab, who is also the spokesperson for the Sindh government, termed the MQM-P presser “a bundle of lies”, called its leaders “political orphans” and said that the party had been rejected by the people of Karachi.

In his reaction, Bilawal House Spokesman Surendar Valasai said that the PPP chairman’s assurance to Karachi’s businessmen of complete protection from extortionists had left MQM-P sleepless.

Published in Dawn, January 31st, 2025