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Summary The former minister says the president and the prime minister do not like the MQM.
Former Sindh senior minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Friday said that the Army would have to intervene if the government had failed to maintain law and order in Karachi.He said that both President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaaf Raza Gilani do not like the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.Addressing a gathering in Lyari, Dr Zulfiqar Mirza asked his opponents to ‘kill him’ if they want to stop him from unearthing the facts.However, he said that he would not the only one to be killed, scores of his opponents would also be slain in revenge.He went on to flay Interior Minister Rehman Malik, accusing him of siding with the people who were trying to break the country. He repeated the allegation that Malik released the terrorists arrested in his (Mirza) tenure in the name of reconciliation.Earlier, the former Sindh minister was given a warm welcome at Sassi toll plaza by the activists of various political and parties on his arrival in the metropolis from Badin. Mirza demanded end to the reconciliation process with the MQM and termination of the Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad. He said that reconciliation by the Pakistan People’s Party with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was unacceptable to him.He said that he was a follower of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and would not hesitate to sacrifice his life for Pakistan as his ideal Bhutto did.
