KARACHI – Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza on Sunday announced an all out war against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif during a charged address to a public rally in Lyari area of Karachi. “I am announcing war against Nawaz Sharif and [PTI chief] Imran Khan. Nawaz must avoid undemocratic attempts. I am not a thug, but can become one to protect my country. The numbers game of ‘Takht-e-Lahore’ is an old story,” he said.
Mirza’s comments have come days after PML-N leader and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif purportedly rejected a proposal to carry on with reconciliatory politics with the PPP. Warning the PML-N against “undemocratic attempts”, he said the PPP would fight inside and outside the assembly and “will fight the war on motorway and no official of the PML-N from Karachi to Kashmore will be spared”.
“The PML-N must keep it in mind that if the PPP was forcibly pushed, there will be dangerous consequences. We will not leave so easily,” he said. “An enemy of the PPP is an enemy of the country. Those who are planning to break the PPP should not forget what happened to former Sindh chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim. The shoe throwing incident can be repeated at someone else too,” Mirza said in a charged tone.
Mirza warned the PML-N that if it “attacked” the PPP in Punjab, “there will be no PML-N office left in the entire Sindh”. If the long march can proceed towards Islamabad from Lahore, a similar long march can also be launched on Lahore from Karachi.
He said residents of Lyari had extended their support to the Bhutto family every time and “Bilwal Bhutto Zardari, Bkhtawar Bhutto Zardari and Asifa Bhutto Zardari were ready to serve the people of Lyari”.
