KARACHI – PPP leader and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is arriving in Sindh today (Sunday) on a three-day visit – his first visit to the province after he developed differences with his party’s leadership on the issue of Raymond Davis – the American, who shot dead two men in Lahore.
His party has not just distanced itself from his visit, but also displayed banners against him at various places in the province.
The banners carry photographs of Qureshi and the late former president Farooq Leghari saying, “Shah Mehmood Qureshi tareekh se sabaq seekho, Farooq Leghari banne ki koshish na karo” – a message that advises Qureshi to learn from history and not try to be Farooq Leghari, a PPP loyalist who went on to topple Benazir Bhutto’s government.
The banners, however, do not mention any party or individual responsible for putting them up. Qureshi, who is also the gadi nasheen of the Gausia Jamaat, is scheduled to start his journey by road from his native city Multan in the morning and enter Sindh through Kamoon Shaheed – a hamlet of Ghotki district bordering Punjab.
A large number of his followers in Sindh are expected to welcome him in Kamoon Shaheed. Later, he would proceed towards the mausoleum of the PPP’s assassinated leader, Benazir Bhutto in Garhi Khuda Bux along with his supporters in the form of a rally. According to Wali Muhammad Rahimoon, a PPP leader and follower of the Ghausia Jamaat, Qureshi would spend a night in Larkana town and then head towards Chachro in Tharparkar district on Monday morning.
Qureshi to show his own Sindh card
