KARACHI: Sindh senior minister and PPP leader Dr Zulfiqar Mirza has
resigned from party office, ministership and Sindh Assembly seat
against the target killings, extortion and internal party policies.
Addressing
an emotional press conference, he made the announcement. After
recalling his personal affiliation with the Bhutto family and Asif Ali
Zardari, placing hand on the holy Quran, Mirza said Rehman Malik is in
connivance with killers. He claimed he has proofs to support his claim,
and intended to hand over the evidence to COAS Gen Kayani, President
Zardari and PM Gilani. Mirza recalled one of the MQM leaders had said
about him that a pimp would be acting as flamboyant as Mirza in the
company of so many policemen. The ex-home minister said "now I have
resigned as minister. I came here in official vehicle. Now I will go
back in my private car. I will only keep the PPP flag. Now all such
people see I, Mirza, is still as flamboyant". He said Karachi doesn t
belong to MQM. "The MQM only has partial mandate given by people s free
will. The rest is taken from voters through coercion. The poor people
who sit in front of a telephone set and listen to speech from London,
do that under pressure, to save trouble to the families who are usually
threatened of consequences." The former home minister expressed
regret for his once remarks derogatory to the Mohajir community. He
said he passed those remarks under rush of blood, being angry. He said
he didn’t t mean to say all that for the community, as "I know there
are good and bad in every community, every society. Neither are all
Indians bad nor all Pakistanis. The same is true for every community.
Only a handful of bad people are responsible for turmoil." Mirza said
pakistan has the biggest threat from no one else, but Interior Minister
Rehman Malik. He said Rehman Malik connived with MQM s Governor and
freed murderers and killers to oblige them so that they carry on
killing spree for vested interests. He said Rehman Malik had been
befooling the party leadership by distorting facts and creating
imaginary fear scenarios by invoking non-existing threats to the
government. To back his point, Mirza said: "Let s suppose, if I free a
murderer who had killed 36 people, wouldn t the obliged killer kill 360
for me." He said Rehman Malik is a flat-faced, 100% liar. "I have
asked him many a time to cut lying intensity by at least 50%," Mirza
said in a lighter tone far between his otherwise tense talk. He said:
"I risked life, property, family, and children, everything by calling
spade a spade because I love Pakistan, because I see my own children s
faces in every dead body of the innocent killed in the city." Mirza
said once MQM chief Altaf Hussain wrote a letter to then UK PM Tony
Blair, urging him to play a role to disband the Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI). He claimed Altaf had written in the letter that the
ISI would create many a Osama bin Laden if it were not disbanded. He
said it is lamentable that the protector of the country s interests was
conspired against in this manner. The former home minister said
MQM Kidmat-e-Khalq Foundation s ambulances were used in transporting
arms and ammunitions and for throwing dead bodies in gunny bags in
various localities to spread terror. Mirza said the MQM was running
gangs of killers and extortionists (Bhatta Khors). He said some
elements wrongly project me as extortionists, whereas I come from a
wealthy, respectable family. He dared the media to expose if they know
of his involvement in any corruption. Ahmed Chanai was appointed
Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) chief on calls and pressures
from London. "I was pressured to appoint him as CPLC chief, but I only
gave him a limited tenure of one year." He later hgot involved in
acting as a middleman and virtually selling police stations. Mirza
said Suteesh Anand, who was once kidnapped, was freed after "I had
chipped in 5 million rupees to make 15 million rupees demanded in
ransom. I did that because I feared God and I always thought that we
got this government due to the grand sacrifice of Mohtarma Benazir
Bhutto". Mirza said journalist Wali Babar was also killed by MQM
members. "Five murderers killed him. One of them is named Liaquat."
While narrating a meeting with Altaf Hussain, Zulfiqar Mirza revealed
under oath that Altaf had said the US had decided to dismember Pakistan
and MQM supported it. Mirza also alleged that Altaf Hussain vowed not
stop killing Pashtoons in this context. Online