PPP lawmakers berate ‘ungrateful’ Mirza

Karachi
Pakistan People’s Party ministers and Sindh Assembly members on Monday expressed serious reservations over the remarks passed by estranged party leader Zulfiqar Mirza against Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, and warned that if he again uttered “such irresponsible remarks” they would lay siege to his house.
Provincial ministers Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Mumtaz Jakhrani, assembly members Imdad Pitafi Tarique Arain, PPP leaders Habib u Ddin Junedi, Zulfiqar Qaimkhani and Manzoor Abbass issued the warning at a joint press conference held at the party’s media cell.
They alleged that Mirza was no less than “an enemy and a snake in the grass”.
“Everyone is aware as to how much corrupt is Zulfiqar Mirza,” a statement issued by the information department of the government quoted them as saying.
Lashing out at Mirza, who is also a former home minister of Sindh, they said that before making remarks against Zardari he should remember his own past.
They dared him to ask his wife, Fahmida Mirza, to resign from the National Assembly and his son from the Sindh Assembly’s membership. Replying to a question, the PPP said: “Fahmida Mirza and his son are in parliament just because of Asif Ali Zardari.” They claimed that Mirza had become the owner of various factories in Badin “just because of the sympathy” shown towards him by Zardari.