Daily Times

Sindh Minister for Information and Archives and Labour Saeed Ghani has said that former president and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had been shifted to prison even when he was seriously ill, while MPA Faryal Talpur was treated in a similar indecent manner when she was shifted to prison from the hospital on the eve of Eid day.

In a statement on Monday, Saeed Ghani said that even the production order issued from the Sindh Assembly was denied, which was a clear violation of rules and regulations. He said that till date no allegations against former president Asif Ali Zardari and Faryal Talpur had been proved.

Mutaza Wahab worried about health of Zardari, Talpur

While slamming the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, he said that it should be labelled as Nazi regime instead of Niazi regime. He said that it was extremely deplorable that the daughter of the former president was not allowed to see her father in prison even when the relatives of the dangerous inmates had access to them. He said that the Pakistan Prisoners Code was not being followed in letter and spirit in the case of former president Asif Ali Zardari.

Saeed Ghani said the even the order of the courts were being denied in this case. The court had allowed the former president to avail the facilities he needed at his own expense, he said. Even the dictators in this country did not treat the women ruthlessly, he said and also censured the way the trial of the case was being conducted in the province where the even the reference was not filed.

The provincial minister said that if this had to be made the norm then the cases of all the accused persons in Punjab and KP should be heard in Sindh. He mentioned that even the trial of Dr Asim and former Chairman Pakistan Steel was not fair. They were forced to give desired statements, he alleged.

He questioned that why the leaders of PTI including Pervez Khatak, Khusro Bakhtiyar, Memood Khan, Asad Qaiser were not being arrested? He pointed out that the unlawful assets of Aleema Khan were proved not of Faryal Talpur. He said that even former Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah who had never been questioned by any of the country’s accountability institution was being asked to appear before National Accountability Bureau time and again.

Saeed Ghani said that today only the allegations and notices were being made the basis of arrests. He told that the efforts were in progress to grill another PPP leader Syed Khursheed Shah in false and fabricated references. He said that a politician elected on a party’s ticket could not join another political party.

Meanwhile, Sindh government spokesperson and Adviser to Chief Minister on Law, Environment and Coastal Development Barrister Murtaza Wahab has expressed his deep concern over the health of former President Asif Ali Zardari and MPA Faryal Talpur, as well as the illegal ban imposed on meeting the party leadership.

In a statement issued here on Monday, Murtaza Wahab said that dictatorship of Nazi Government had deliberately stopped medical facilities of cardiac patient in jail and deprived his fundamental facilities. He said that this inhuman act was beyond the law and murder of principles of justice.

The Advisor to CM Sindh said, “PM Imran Khan had promised to nation to implement and provide justice and now he got u turn continuously.”

Murtaza Wahab expressed severe reservation on government measures and infringement of the human rights.