PPP MPAs deny involvement in killing of Channa tribe’s people in Dadu

KARACHI: Condemning the recent killing incident in Mehar Taluka of Dadu District, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) MPAs Sardar Khan Chandio and Ghaibi Khan Chandio have said that their political opponents had been unduly subjecting them to media trial and implicating them in the incident without any cause.

Speaking at a press conference here at their residence on Friday, MPA Sardar Khan Chandio said that the people of Channa tribe had unduly lodged the first investigation report (FIR) of the recent killing incident against him and his brother.

He said his brother Burhan Chandio was in Hyderabad on January 16, 2018, a day before the killing incident took place, while on the next day he attended the reception hosted by former MPA Muhammad Nawaz Chandio, where PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and Sindh chief minister were also invited. He said that footage of the reception was also available where the DIG police of the area and the commissioner of Hyderabad were also present. He said that Burhan Chandio had attended the reception along with his friends. The PPP MPA said that the press conference had been convened to disclose the truth about recent killing incident in Mehar Taluka of Dadu District. He condemned the killing of two people of Channa tribe in the incident. He said that FIR of the incident had been lodged 17 hours after the killings had taken place. Chandio said that he had been unduly named in the FIR for threatening the slain persons, adding that he had never come into contact of any kind with them during the last six months and even records of their personal telephone calls could be scrutinised for the purpose. He said that similar untruthful FIR had been lodged against them by their political opponents in the past too.