Rao anwar and zulfiqar mirza ppp
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The typical cat-and-mouse game between the law enforcing agencies and MQM in Karachi continues. The recent arrest and subsequent release of MQM leader Khawaja Izharul Hassan is just the latest episode. A number of other MQM leaders and activists, including the newly-elected Karachi mayor Waseem Akhtar, have already been nabbed by LEA’s in the city. So the political future of MQM as well as the Urdu-speaking community in Sindh continues to hang in the balance.
Through his most controversial anti-Pakistan speech on August 22 this year, MQM chief Altaf Hussain put a decisive nail in the political coffin of the dying MQM. But apparently, the beleaguered political party has somehow managed to survive a suicidal attack made by his self-exiled leader through a treacherous political move. MQM’s parliamentary leadership has resurrected the nearly-dead political party with the help of ‘pro-democracy forces’ in the country. Thanks to our political expediencies once aga
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BADIN: In the aftermath of a big public gathering of Dr Zulfikar Ali Mirza and his spouse Dr Fahmida Mirza in Badin district, leadership of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has informally announced its candidates from all the seven constituencies of the district.
Sharing details of the decision of the leadership, Badin PPP coordinator Gul Mohammad Jakhrani informed Dawn on Monday that Mir Ghulam Ali Talpur, son of politician Mir Banda Ali Khan, and Basheer Ahmed Halepoto would contest the elections from NA-229 and NA-230 respectively. While Mohammad aka Dada Halepoto, Mir Allah Bux Talpur, Bibi Yasmin Shah, Qasim Siraj Soomro and Mohammad Ismail Rahu would be given the party tickets to contest elections from PS-70 Matli to PS-74 (Shaheed Fazil Rahu).
He claimed that the PPP leadership with the consent of party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had made that decision and there was little chance to change the nominees.
Mr Jakhrani said Faryal Talpu
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Pir Pagara alleges PML-N and PPP tacitly supporting each other
GDA leaders censure Sindh govt for corruption, bad governance in public meeting
HYDERABAD: Udhar tum, idhar hum [we rule here, you rule there], the momentous statement attributed to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto during the times when Bangladesh was in the process of separating from sydasiatiskt land , was reiterated on Sunday during the public meeting of the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) in Moro in Naushero Feroz district.
However, this time, the statement alluded to the alleged tacit agreement between the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) for not troubling each other's governments in Sindh and Punjab respectively.
"The PPP has ended in Punjab and PML-N in Sindh due to the friendship between mian sahib [PML-N President Nawaz Sharif] and Asif Zardari [PPP co-chairperson]," asserted Pir Pagara Sibg