The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is not going to form a coalition with Muttahida Qaumi Movement in the provincial government of Sindh at least for now, according to media reports.
Sources privy to the Bilawal House matters disclosed that a top level meeting chaired by Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari came to the conclusion that it would be in the best interest of the party to let a PPP-MQM alliance wait until the dust settles.
Apparently, the PPP is distancing itself from the MQM since the death row convict Saulat Mirza has opened a Pandora’s Box in a video statement released hours before his hanging, which was later prorogued for three days and later on one month.
Later, Zardari telephoned Governor Sindh, Dr Isharat-ul-Ebad, and gave him the news, the sources added.
Yesterday the authorities stayed the execution of a political activist convicted of s triple homicide, as a video of him emerged claiming he had acted on the orders of his party chief.
Saulat Ali Khan, also known as Saulat Mirza, said the leadership of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the dominant party in Karachi, instructed him to kill the MD of the city’s electricity company in 1997.
Mirza also alleged that PPP, during their last regime, had ‘facilitating’ him on the request of the MQM.
Party leader Altaf Hussain vehemently denied the claims.
