Residents of Tando Muhammad Khan raise slogans in favour of Zulfiqar Mirza in Hyderabad. PHOTO: PPI
HYDERABAD: Badin remained shut on Thursday as tension prevailed between Zulfiqar Mirza and his political opponents from the Pakistan Peoples Party. The commercial areas in all talukas of Badin observed a strike on the call of Anjuman Tajraan Badin and Tajir Ittehad.
The leaders of both the associations, Imtiaz Ali Memon and Taj Muhammad Mallah are complainants in two of the four FIRs lodged against Mirza in Badin. The two, who joined the PPP last month, allege that Mirza and his supporters attacked their shops on May 3 and robbed them of Rs7.7 million cash.
Supporters of both Mirza and PPP held demonstrations in different areas.
Police deployment outside the Morjhar farm house was beefed with a dozen police mobiles and three armoured personnel vehicles.
"I feel threatened by the Sindh government," said MNA Dr Fehmida Mirza while talking to the media at the farm house. "It's shameful when they ask am I and my son with my husband or not?"
Dr Fehmida reiterated that the provincial government was resorting to political victimization of Mirza by lodging fake FIRs with sections of Anti-Terrorism Act. She demanded that the fake cases should be immediately withdrawn.
Meanwhile, traders and local leaders of the PPP continued to pressure the government to arrest Mirza and other people nominated in the FIR.
After the Anti Terrorism Court's judge Abdul Ghafoor Memon decline to hear case against Mirza, the Sindh High Court transferred the case to ATC Karachi on Thursday. In his letter to the SHC, submitted on Wednesday, Memon said Mirza's father late justice Zafar Hussain Mirza was his senior when he was an advocate.
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