CorporateAmbassador/KARACHI: C-Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party and ex-President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari, on Monday blamed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for the arrests of PPP leaders in corruption cases. Zardari said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reverted to revenge politics of the 1990s.
He said first Qasim Zia and Senator Bangash’s son were arrested, which was followed by Dr Asim’s arrested by Rangers while warrants for the arrest of former PM Yousuf Raza Gilani and ex-Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim have also been issued, he said.
In a statement issued from London on Monday (Aug 31), Asif Zardari said the bureaucrats in Sindh were being harassed by the Federal Investigation Agency and the National Accountability Bureau and stated that the chief secretary of Sindh is also on bail.
He said that this situation makes clear the political harassment and revenge that demoralised Sindh govt and PPP leaders under direct orders from the Prime Minister House. Zardari said Nawaz Sharif had learned nothing from the past.
“We are not the ones who fled to Jeddah after seeking pardon. The nation very well knows that Nawaz Sharif holds the ‘honor’ of applying for pardon. We accepted the results of the 2013 general elections for the sake of democracy, although the elections were “ROs’ elections,” Zardari said, adding the recent verdicts from election tribunals proved our stance that the PML-N received outside help and was facilitated to win the elections.”
The former president said at a time when “our innocent citizens are being killed by indiscriminate shelling in border villages by the enemy, when Pakistani Army is fighting a decisive war against terrorists… Nawaz Sharif, instead of challenging the real enemy, is targeting Peoples Party and other political opponents.”
Zardari said steps being taken by the government clearly indicate that it is dividing the nation in an attempt to save their natural allies – Taliban and terrorists – and weaken the war against terror.
He said the PPP stands with the army in the ongoing war against terrorism. “We salute our jawans who gave the ultimate sacrifices in this war.”
The PPP denied the impression it was involved in terror financing, saying the party had itself suffered huge losses in the fight against terrorism.
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