- PPP co-chairman says Sharif has not learned any lessons from past
- PPP says ruling Nawaz-League renewing 1990’s politics of revenge, grossly violating spirit of CoD
Terming the case registered against his brother-in-law Mir Munawwar Talpur as fake, former president and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday that he was thankful to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for this “New Year’s gift”.
In a statement issued from Dubai, Zardari said that Prime Minister Sharif had provided him with the first gift of 2016 and for that, he was thankful to him.
He said that a similar gift was given to the PPP in 2015 in the form of a false case registered against former petroleum minister Dr Asim Hussain, but no evidence could be found against him.
Addressing the prime minister, Zardari said that the PPP had braved hardships and cruelties in the past and would continue to do so, but “the only regret was that Nawaz Sharif has not learned any lessons from the past”.
He further said that those who had tried to accomplish their agenda by harming the PPP before did not succeed, nor would they be successful now.
Mir Munawar Ali Khan Talpur is husband of Asif Zardari’s sister Dr Faryal Talpur and is the sitting MPA from the constituency of NA-227.
In a separate statement issued from Karachi, the PPP said that Nawaz Sharif-led government in the Centre had once again renewed the 1990’s politics of revenge and was grossly violating the spirit and the joint communiqué of the Charter of Democracy (CoD) to which Sharif himself was a signatory.
“The PML-N is now throwing it in political isolation by commencing the politics of revenge. The framing of a fake case against a very sane, respectable politician of Sindh and senior PPP leader Mir Munawwar Ali Talpur is not only based on ill-will, but is also a manifest of completion of a secret agenda of some institutions, which is the continuation of bogus cases against Sindh’s Higher Education Commission chairman Dr Asim Hussain,” the statement said.
The PPP had strongly condemned detention of Dr Asim Hussain, a close aide of Zardari, and its provincial government in Sindh had gone on to curtailing policing powers for the paramilitary Rangers.