ISLAMABAD: The leadership of the Awami National Party (ANP) has
dissociated itself for Zulfiqar Mirza’s statement and directed its
workers to remain alert and closely monitor the activities in their
surroundings.
“All wards offices in the city have been put on
red alert. The party workers are asked to prepare themselves to cope
with any untoward situation,” ANP’s spokesperson Qadir Khan said on
Thursday.
The party workers and supporters are ready to render
their lives for ANP leaders, he added. “The ANP also condemns the
demands of the Mohajir Rabita Council (MRC), in which they have given a
48-hour deadline to President ANP, Sindh, Shahi Syed, to leave the
city. It shows the Taliban-like mentality of the MRC. These threats are
not new for the nationalist party and its leadership”, he added.
“The so-called MRC probably wants to create differences among Urdu and Pashto-speaking communities.
However, that scheme would lead to a civil war between them,” Khan feared.
The
ANP also condemned the killing and loss of property and appealed to the
masses to stand united to defeat the conspiracy to create ethnic unrest
in the city.
Disowning the statement of the Senior Minister for
Works and Services, Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, against the Muttahida Qaumi
Movement (MQM) and its leadership, including Altaf Hussain, the ANP
claimed that those were Dr Mirza’s personal views. Online
