Hot words: PPP lawmakers lash out at Zulfiqar Mirza

Warn that party workers will surround his house if he uses abusive language against Zardari.

KARACHI: Calling politician Zulfiqar Mirza a 'backstabber' and a 'traitor', parliamentarians from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) warned him that if he used abusive language against party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari again, party workers will surround his residence.

"Everyone knows how corrupt Mirza is. Before hurling accusations at Zardari, he should look at his own track record," said Mumtaz Hussain Jakhrani, the provincial transport minister, at a press conference held at the PPP media cell on Monday.

The PPP lawmakers said that instead of levelling baseless allegations against the party leaders, he should make his wife, Fehmida Mirza, resign from the National Assembly and his son, Hasnain, from the Sindh Assembly.

MPA Imdad Pitafi claimed that Mirza was told by the PPP to resign from his ministry because of corruption charges. "We can also respond to the language that Mirza is using, but his language is dirty and abusive."



Pitafi alleged that Mirza was involved in massive corruptions and was a bank defaulter. "He had said that he would never make his son contest the elections but he was the first one to approach Zardari for a party ticket in the last general elections," he further said.

"If Mirza is so honest and respectable, we dare him to make his wife and son resign from their seats," he said, adding that Zardari had been supporting Mirza for the last 40 years.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 28^th, 2015.