ISLAMABAD: After sparking statement which shocked the country,
President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday has summoned Senior Minister of
Sindh Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza to Islamabad.
According to press
release issued by the Presidency here, Spokesperson to the President
Farhatullah Babar said that Zulfiqar Mirza has been summoned in the
wake of controversial statement given by the provincial senior minister
Wednesday night.
He said that the Party has already disowned
the statement and called upon its rank and file to show restraint in
public statement. Mirza was asked to immediately report to the Party
leadership in the capital.
After breathed fire by Zulfiqar
Mirza against the Urdu speaking community, at least 15 people have been
killed, dozens other injured and buses and properties were torched
during the mass protests in Karachi, Hyderabad, Sakhar and other cities
across the province.
The financial capital of the country burst
into violence after senior PPP minister described MQM-Haqiqi chairman
Afaq Ahmed as the real leader of the Mohajir nation, asking the people
of Karachi and Hyderabad to rise against the Muttahida. Online
