Fehmida Mirza asks PPP leadership to refrain from using ‘Sindh Card’

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Dr. Fehmida Mirza has urged the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership to refrain from playing ‘Sindh Card’ for their vested interests, Radio Pakistan reported.

Speaking to media outside the Parliament house in Islamabad, here today, along with Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen  Mazari and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan, she said the PPP parliamentarians over reacted on the arrest of Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani.

Mrs Mirza said the PPP MNA’s disrupted the proceedings of the house when she took the floor and wanted to express her views on the matter.

She said that the Sindh government gave no protocol to her being former Speaker of the National Assembly and committed injustices to her by registering baseless cases against her and her family.

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The minister said she knows the problem of top PPP leadership as to why they are politicizing each and every corruption case against them and their cronies.

Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari said PPP parliamentarians unduly created rumpus in the house exposing themselves and their so called love for democracy.

She said NAB is an independent institution and National Assembly has nothing to do with its actions and functioning.

It is pertinent to mention here that the NAB, yesterday, had strongly condemned the provincialism in any form, in reaction to former president Asif Ali Zardari’s remarks against it after the arrest of Agha Siraj Durrani over alleged accumulation of assets disproportionate to his source of income.