HYDERABAD: A large number of activists of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) held a protest demonstration here on Saturday, accusing Pakistan Peoples Party leader Sharjeel Inam Memon and his relatives of implicating PTI workers in ‘fake cases’.

The protesters gathered outside the press club and chanted slogans against the PPP leader and his relatives Zeeshan Memon, Salman Memon and others.

PTI Hyderabad president Khawand Bux Jahejo alleged that he, his two sons and other party activists were being implicated in ‘fake cases’ lodged at Rahuki police station in Hyderabad rural taluka at the behest of the PPP leader. The ‘victimisation’ was aimed at forcing them to quit the PTI and change loyalty, he said.

He demanded that the federal government should bring Sharjeel Memon back to the country and conduct an enquiry into his and his associates’ assets and corruption through the National Accountability Bureau. The government machinery was supporting the PPP leader and his men, he said.

On the other hand, social activist Hamid Khanzada, Khalid Murtaza and several villagers, belonging to Hyderabad’s rural areas, have held protests and organised press conferences in the past, accusing Mr Jahejo and his men of being involved in land-grabbing, harassment of political rivals and hooliganism.

Published in Dawn, March 5th, 2017

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