KARACHI: Sindh Senior Minister for Information Sharjeel Inam Memon has stated that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur should refrain from using harsh language against the people’s leader, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Reacting to Gandapur’s statement, Memon, who is also Sindh’s minister for information, transport and mass transit, said on Tuesday that it is better not to provoke the sentiments of PPP workers, as the ideology and sacrifice of Shaheed Bhutto remain alive to this day. The PTI’s narrative, he said, is marked by loud rhetoric, falsehood and frequent U-turns.
Memon said the politics of Gandapur and the PTI are rooted in degradation, falsehood and baseless accusations. He added that Gandapur’s remarks about violence against PPP workers reflect political hypocrisy and self-deception.
The senior minister said justifying the shelling of workers under the pretext of Red Zone SOPs was an undemocratic and fascist act. When protesters are peaceful and exercising their fundamental political rights, using tear gas against them is not the implementation of any SOP’ it is evidence of an authoritarian mindset, he further remarked.
He said the PPP’s entry into the Red Zone was also a legitimate form of political expression. The use of force against it proves that the PTI’s so-called commitment to democracy extends only to serving its own interests. Those who had complete freedom to destroy containers in Islamabad yesterday are now acting as the guardians of the Red Zone’s boundaries, he said.
Memon maintained that those who speak against Shaheed Bhutto are themselves bound to a leader who has turned the country’s politics into a personal and divisive affair. Shaheed Bhutto was not condemned by history but by a dictatorship, the same dictatorship that enabled the PTI to come into power, he remarked.
He said the PTI founder faces dozens of charges involving financial, moral, and constitutional violations. If such serious offences, such as disrespecting national institutions, leaking state secrets, and inciting the public, are dismissed as “political revenge”, then the very definition of terrorism would need to be reconsidered, he stressed.
He said courts themselves have delivered their verdicts, and the narrative of innocence from behind bars is merely an attempt to portray political victimhood. PTI members are now accusing the very system that brought them to power, he said, adding that the PTI has no real narrative; its entire politics is a reflection of a failed movement, failed leadership, and failed political ethics.
