PPP being targeted under pretext of anti-corruption drive: Qaim

Karachi
The chief minister said on Monday that Sindh was being treated unfairly and its ruling party, the Pakistan People’s Party, was being targeted under the pretext of a drive against corruption even though it was happening in other provinces too.
Qaim Ali Shah was talking to reporters after visiting ailing party leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim at a hospital. The chief minister said a few months ago he had said at the Federation House that Sindh was under attack. “Our government, our ministers, officers and party leaders have been targeted in the name of corruption,” he said.
Shah said the PPP had a long history of facing such conspiracies. “The PPP is a secular political force and that’s why it has always been on target. If secular forces are sidelined, extremists will fill the vacuum and that will be dangerous for the country,” he warned. He said that despite the “invasion” of federal agencies and attacks on his government, the latter was working for the betterment of the people of the province.

Fahim admitted to hospital
Pakistan People’s Party senior leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim was flown to Karachi from Dubai in the wee hours of Monday and admitted to the South City Hospital in Clifton.
Fahim had been abroad for the last several months for cancer treatment in its advanced stage.
Doctors in London treating Fahim had reportedly advised him to regain some of his lost strength continuing with the treatment as he had undergone two of the four stages of treatment.
Fahim was shifted from Dubai to Karachi via an air ambulance. He is the spiritual leader of Sarwari Jamaat in Sindh. During his absence, Fahim had been summoned by a federal accountability court in Karachi along with former prime minister and PPP leader Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in a corruption reference related to the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan, but he could not attend the hearing because of his health and treatment.