Bilawal is my leader, says Zulfiqar Mirza

LONDON: Former Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza has said that Bilawal Bhutto is the only hope for Pakistan and he considered him leader of the Pakstan People’s Party as well as his own personal leader.
Speaking to a press conference here two weeks after arriving here, Mirza said he has been busy with his family matters and has been unable to meet Bilawal but would like to meet him to offer “salam” and wish him well. Mirza’s press conference was organised by Pakistan Patriotic Front UK’s leader Tariq Mahmood. Mirza said: “I believe that Bilawal Bhutto is the last ray of hope for Pakistan and there’s no other leader like him. He can save Pakistan, and I would wish him to follow the path of his mother Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and Grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and no one else.”
Speaking to Geo News, Mirza said that Uzair Baloch was like his brother, and he had no idea if he was involved in any criminality. “He has not committed any crime on my orders. He deserves justice when he is in Pakistan and needs an open forum to express his views.”
Mirza told Geo News that he had no intention of joining Imran Khan’s PTI or PPP Murtaza Bhutto group but praised Imran Khan and Ghanwa Bhutto. “I love him, I like him, he and I have similar views on corruption and other social issues. He is a good man and has excellent character, but I am not joining him. Ghanwa Bhutto deserves praise as how she raised her kids single handedly and against powerful enemies.”
Zulfikar Mirza subjected his former best friend and benefactor Asif Ali Zardari to worst kind of criticism and blamed him for almost everything wrong in Pakistan. Mirza claimed that “both Asif Ali Zardari and MQM leader Altaf Hussain are partners in crimes in Sindh.” He alleged that Zardari came to the rescue of Altaf Hussain a few days after the Baldia Town JIT was made public and when the MQM was under pressure. He said PPP’s offer to MQM to become partner in the Sindh government was an indication that both parties had same interest. He said Baldia Town factory was burnt down because of “inflation in Bhatta”.
Zulfiqar Mirza made serious allegations of corruption and financial wrongdoings in Sindh by various politicians and appealed to Pakistan’s civilian and military leadership to intervene and investigate his allegations. He said that Baldia Town JIT was an eye opener and it was evident that more than 250 innocent workers were killed “because of inflation in Bhatta”.
Mirza said that he was expelled from the PPP Central Executive Committee in violation of the rules. “Expelling someone without a show cause notice is violation of the party rules. They can stop me from coming to the CEC, but they cannot stop my family as they are still part of the PPP and no one can revoke my status as a worker of the PPP founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. I am still part of the PPP, and no one can throw me out of it. My status as PPP worker cannot be revoked.”
Mirza said it was a “difficult decision” to go against Asif Ali Zardari but, “on the one hand, it was my four decade long friendship and, on the other hand, the path to save my dying mother Sindh”. He said that the PPP leadership prides itself on “adherence to the slogan that democracy is the best revenge” but bent over backwards in consolidating its hold on power by hook or crook and “forging an alliance with the Qatul league”.