Daily Times

LONDON – Former president and Pakistan People’s Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that the results of vengeful politics by the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N will be very dangerous.

In a statement issued here on Monday, the PPP leader said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was repeating politics of the 90s. He said that the steps being taken by the government clearly indicated that they were dividing the nation in an attempt to “save their natural allies Taliban and the terrorists and weaken the war against terror”.

Zardari said that the PPP stood firmly with the army in the ongoing war against terrorism. “Instead of challenging the real enemy, Nawaz Sharif is targeting the PPP and other political opponents,” he added. “The decisions just announced by the tribunals have proved our point that the PML-N received outside help and was made to win the elections,” he said.

The PPP leader said that the bureaucrats in Sindh were being harassed by the Federal Investigation Agency and the National Accountability Bureau. “The chief secretary of Sindh is on bail. All this unmistakably presents a clear pattern of political harassment and revenge under the direct orders from the PM House,” he added.

He said that a video surfaced in which Punjab Education Minister Rana Mushhood was seen receiving money on behalf of Sharif Brothers, but he was still not arrested. He said that the PPP was a party of fearless followers who could not be defeated by the threat of executions, lashing or imprisonment.

“It seems that Nawaz Sharif has not learnt any lessons from the past. We are not the ones who fled to Jeddah after seeking pardon. The nation very well knows that the ‘honor’ of applying for pardon by any politician in the country only belongs to Nawaz Sharif,” he said.

“Sharif brothers are in the government today because of us. It was the People’s Party which removed ban from becoming prime minister for a third time – although it was evident to us that it will only serve the interests of Sharif Brothers,” he added.

Zardari demanded that the report of Justice Najafi on Model Town killing should be made public and all involved in this gruesome murder of innocent people be arrested. He also demanded that all characters involved in the Asghar Khan Case should also be apprehended. “Those who killed 14 people, including women in the Model Town tragedy, aren’t they terrorists? Why they are not being arrested?” he questioned.