PPP leadership slams attack

Karachi
The top leadership of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) poured in their condemnations and condolences on Saturday regarding the death of the brother of a provincial minister from Lyari in an attack at his office late Friday night.
Akbar Nagori, brother of Sindh Minister Jawaid Nagori was martyred following injuries in a grenade attack that wounded five more PPP workers late Fridaynight in Lyari. Meanwhile, a convoy of PPP FATA president Akhunzada Chattan was attacked with a remote-controlled bomb in Bajaur Agency however he miraculously escaped unhurt.
The co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari expressed his condolence on the death of Akbar Nagori and prayed for his bereave family.
The PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari also in a statement issued strongly condemned the terrorist attack on PPP Minister Jawaid Nagori Nagori’s office in Karachi. He also condemned an attack on the convoy of PPP FATA president Akhunzada Chattan in Bajaur Agency.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardar said that such coward attacks cannot deter his Party, its leaders and workers from drifting the cause of elimination of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. “PPP remains the only political party of the nation which is being targeted by the terrorists and their sponsors for building a narrative against cancer of extremism and terrorism,” he added.
He expressed sympathies with Jawaid Nagori and his family for the loss and also praised Akhunzada Chattan for working for the rights of FATA and claimed that the party will stand by them through thick and thin.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah while expressing his grief directed the Sindh IGP to waste no time and immediately arrest the culprits involved in the attack in Lyari.
The PPP general -secretary of Karachi division, Syed Najmi Alam, while speaking at the funeral said the attack on a provincial minister and his brother’s martyrdom was proof that anti-PPP forces could not digest the commencement of the party’s political activities in the city. He said anti-PPP forces were puzzled over the historical public gathering held at the Kakri Ground earlier in the month.
The PPP leaders who attended the funeral of Akbar Nagori included PPP Sindh chapter secretary information Waqar Mehdi, MNA Shah Jehan Balouch, Senator Saeed Ghani, Senator Yousuf Balouch, Rashid Rabbani, Akhtar Jadoon, Sardar Khan, Habib Hassan, Shah Jehan Khan, Abid Satti, Manzoor Abbas, Lal Bux Bhutto, Qasim Balouch, Saeed Chawla, Raja Razzaque, Zafar Siddiqui, Sajid Jokhio, Siddique Akbar, Izhar Ul Haq Hassan Zai, Aslam Samoo, Qazi Basheer, Shehzad Mazari, Zulfiquar Kaimkhani, Arshad Naqvi, Taymoor Sayyal, Shahbaz Akhtar, Khalil Hoat, Malik Fayyaz, Malik Mushtaque, Khalid Khan and Lala Raheem, besides a large number of PPP workers.
Najmi Alam said the attack on PPP minister’s office was a clear manifestation of the intolerance of anti-PPP forces who did not want it to make Lyari a peaceful area. He said these forces wanted to keep Lyari in trouble so they could fulfill their vested designs.
He had categorically rejected the claim of the DIG South who had stated that the attack was a reaction of police action in Lyari in which a huge cache of arms had been recovered.
Alam said such hasty statements were tantamount to destroying the actual facts and hence police officials should avoid them.
He asked the anti-PPP forces to bear in mind that the party could not be quietened by such ‘fascist’ acts and they will never bow down before them.