The leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) strongly criticised the leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Sunday, saying the elder brother (PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif) was using the younger brother (Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif) in Punjab.
They also said that the MQM’s big rally in Karachi was a big slap in the face of the PML-N. They said the Sharif brothers were the real sons of former military dictator General Ziaul Haq, and they had proved it. “Not Ejazul Haq but the Sharif brothers are actual sons of the dictator and enemy of democracy, General Zia. Sharifs are the real followers of Zia,” Sindh Senior Minister for Education and Literacy Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq told participants of a large protest rally organised by the MQM at Tibet Centre, MA Jinnah Road.
He said the person who was claiming to be the ‘servant of Punjab’ was not expected to use such insulting language against the president of Pakistan. “A conspiracy was planned against Shahbaz by his own elder brother as he himself did not come forward in the rally but sent his brother and asked him to use such language, which badly damaged Shahbaz Sharif. The elder brother stabbed his younger brother in the back,” he said.
Haq said those who signed the Charter of Democracy (CoD), which stated that the parties would not conspire against each other, should not insult each other, but the PML-N was violating the CoD left, right and centre. MQM Rabita Committee Deputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar said whenever anyone tried to destabilise Pakistan and democracy, the guarantor of democracy Altaf Hussain came forward to protect it. “This big rally is a referendum that says the people will foil any conspiracy against democracy. We condemn the language which was used against the president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari. This is a violation of the constitution and against the norms and culture of Punjab,” he added.
He said the huge rally was organised within just 40 hours and millions of people had gathered at such a short notice. Sindh Local Government Minister Agha Siraj Ahmed said President Zardari and Altaf Hussain were united, and nobody could separate them. “We will not use abusive language. We can pull out the tongue that is used against us but we are political people. We will deal with them politically,” he said.
‘MQM rally a slap in PML-N’s face’
