Sindh Assembly Deputy Speaker Shehla Raza on Tuesday said she was continuously receiving death threats and also received a letter lately demanding Rs 500 million extortion.
According to sources, the letter signed by Fakhar Abbas Lashari and Imran Lashari along with their mobile numbers was sent to the PPP leader in Karachi from Rawalpindi’s Satellite area.
The Pakistan People’s Party leader said that she has received so many threatening calls that she had got used to it now. “I receive calls from different unknown numbers sometimes from London. It was the first time that I received a call from Punjab on this Sunday. This man called me from his personal number.
“I informed security agencies about the entire situation, then after investigation they told me that he was just a prayer leader in a mosque and suffering from schizophrenia,” she said adding her objection was that definitely a mentally disabled person would commit such an act of killing others.
The deputy speaker said we should not take it lightly. She was not much worried about herself, but she was concerned about bombing of assembly, she added.
“Earlier, I never reported these calls, however after receiving threat of bombing the Sindh Assembly, I have become apprehensive,” she said. To a query, she said the callers demand from her to tell him how she would like to be killed.
The PPP leader also produced a letter in which she was threatened with dire consequences if she does not pay a sum of Rs 50 million in extortion.
Additional IG Counter Terrorism Department Sanaullah Abbasi reached the Sindh Assembly to meet Shehla Raza on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, DG Rangers has issued order to increase Shehla Raza’s security.
Reacting to a news report regarding a threatening letter addressed to Shehla Raza, Imran Lashari Tuesday declined any role in the episode, saying how he can write such a letter in his own name.
Lashari asserted his adversaries wrote the letter to defame him, as “How can I write a threatening letter with my own name clearly mentioned therein?”
“People who have usurped our lands want to get us into hot water,” he added.