He further said that Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) ought to have provided Sindh Chief Minister and governor an opportunity to attend the meeting that he presided over at Corps Headquarters over peace in Karachi. He claimed that Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) now has its maximal presence in Sindh and Balochistan to destabilise the country.
He said that Prime Minister Nawaz is required to appreciate the fact that political parties are his arms. He said the cases against former prime ministers Yousaf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervez Ashraf are nothing but acts of political victimisation, which must stop.
He said there are cases against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain in the UK but Scotland Yard has not arrested him yet. He said that Sindh Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman Dr Asim Hussain should have been interrogated first before initiation of any legal proceedings against him. "If there is any evidence against Dr Asim, it should be presented before a court of law," he added. Shah said the government should be ashamed of handcuffing PPP's ex-Punjab president Qasim Zia. He called upon the prime minister to intervene in the matter of Sindh. He said that PPP is ready to hold talks with the prime minister "as we do not want to weaken Parliament." To a question, he said the forum of parliament should be used to resolve the issue of Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) controversial members.
At the same time, he insisted that the ECP members had no moral ground to remain on their post as they have failed to ensure free and fair elections. However, he added, that PPP would not participate in the proposed agitation that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has planned against the ECP members.
Meanwhile, addressing a news conference here, PPP information secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira and Senator Sherry Rehman they said that PPP always stood against terrorism and extremism, adding that it was not even allowed a free election campaign in 2013 by terrorists. They said the PPP does not defend corruption, adding that its leader always faced cases of corruption in courts in past and some of them were still facing trials in such cases.
They said that PPP holds the higher judiciary in high esteem, adding that even party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and the then prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had presented themselves before courts. Sherry Rehman said that anti-terrorism laws are being used against politicians. She said that it seems that PPP leaders are being politically victimised.
Answering a question, Kaira said the PPP would use parliament's forum to raise such issues. "We will launch a protest against the allegations by remaining within the ambit of constitution," he added. "We are giving a message to the PML-N government... We need to be told whether they want to declare the PPP a terrorist party," he maintained.