Karachi (September 26, 2017): Altaf Hussain is no different than Kulbhushan Jadhav and Sindh government is ready to hang him if permitted by the federal government, provincial home minister Sohail Anwar Sial has said.
“MQM’s founder is a traitor and the punishment for a traitor is nothing else but death,” Sial said while addressing a ceremony in Karachi on Tuesday afternoon.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership has honoured its promise as peace has returned to Karachi, Sial said, adding: “The role of the armed forces and paramilitary Rangers is commendable in this regard.”
Sial said the Sindh government has already written to the federal government asking it to issue red warrants for Hussain. “It is now the responsibility of the federal government to issue the red warrants,” he said.
Sial also took on the former president Pervez Musharraf and former home minister Zulfikar Mirza for accusing PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari of involvement in Benazir Bhutto’s murder.
“Why did Pervez Musharraf do nothing against Asif Zardari when he was the president?” Sial asked. “Zulfiqar Mirza was the Sindh home minister [at the time]. Why did he not speak then?”
The PPP leader said the provincial government has requested the federal government to suspend cellphone services on the 9th and 10th of Muharram.
On August 22, 2016, the MQM founder made incendiary speech against the state institutions, leading to attacks by party workers on the offices of different television channels. The speech had also led to a division in the party, followed by formation of MQM-Pakistan, which is led by Farooq Sattar and MQM-London.
On Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s accusation that Asif Ali Zardari had plotted the assassination of former premier Benazir and his brother Murtaza Bhutto, Sial asked as to why Musharraf did not produce evidence against the PPP co-chairman when he was in prison.
Regarding the suspension of mobile network services during Muharram 9 and 10, Sial said that a request in this regard has been submitted to the the Centre, adding that services will remain suspended in the districts making the request.
