Daily Times : Shujaat’s rant shameful: PPP leader

Shujaat’s rant shameful: PPP leader

Daily Times Monitoring | October 23, 2007

LAHORE: Hundreds of PPP workers were killed in the Karachi blasts and to call it a conspiracy is “shameful”, said Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Raja Pervez Ashraf in reaction to Pakistan Muslim League (PML) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain’s accusations that the blast was a conspiracy.

He said Shujaat was not in his senses to give such remarks. Earlier on Monday, Hussain speaking on Geo television’s program ‘Capital Talk’, had said the Karachi blasts that killed 140 people were a scripted conspiracy conceived by PPP Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto’s spouse Asif Ali Zardari.

Zardari “hatched a conspiracy and they implemented it,” Hussain said, noting Bhutto had gone into the bus just before the explosions, AP reported.

He said the blasts were the PPP’s conspiracy to gain the sympathies of people both inside and outside the country. “None of PPP central leadership is killed or injured which shows it was a PPP conspiracy to show itself innocent, ” he added.

He said no consensus could be reached with the PPP if it kept making allegations, like it naming Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi in the first information report (FIR) of the Karachi blasts.

The UK and the US showed solidarity with the PPP after the blasts, which further strengthens the notion that the blasts were carried out as a result of conspiracy, he added.