Zardari planted Mirza, alleges Marvi Memon

Criticises multiparty summit and alleges that all the parties have their share in the loot and plunder.

SUKKUR: Former provincial home minister, Zulfiqar Mirza, is playing the role of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) “B” team, remarked former MNA Marvi Memon. After the party lost credibility, President Zardari planted him to repair the damage, she said.

Memon’s criticism came at a press conference at the Sukkur Press Club on Monday night.

She went over the usual rhetoric of Pakistan passing through a crucial phase which is why all politicians should play a positive role. She criticised the all parties conference, saying that all the parties that attend such conferences just do it to get their share of the loot and plunder.

Her solution was to hold a roundtable conference for “sincere” politicians. She said that Pakistan’s youth should also be included because they have the potential to pull the country out of the “present crisis”. Replying to a question about launching her own party, she said that it was too early. “I am contacting like-minded and sincere people who want to work for Pakistan and not for their own interests.”

While commenting on the unrest in Karachi, Memon said that the extortion mafia was at war because some of them were getting less of the share.

Memon also announced that like last year, she will stage a sit-in at the line of control in Azad Kashmir on October 27, to tell the world about the massive human rights violations by the Indian army.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 19^th, 2011.