Zulfiqar mirza affair recovery

HYDERABAD: Re­cent actions against close associates and supporters of Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, a Badin-based former firebrand leader of Pakistan Peoples Party and now a major figure in Grand Democratic Alliance, and her spouse Dr Fehmida indicate decision has been taken to turn up heat on the ruling party’s dissidents again.

The fresh wave of actions, which Mirza’s men see as strong arm tactics of the Sindh government, started on July 30 when two of his team members, Ghulam Mohammad Khawaja alias Dilbar Sindhi and Khawaja’s friend Faisal Cheema were picked up by plainclothes men in Tando Bago and held incommunicado.

The two now face charges of possession of illicit weapons, narcotics and issuing threats of dire consequences.

Khawaja, Mirza’s trusted man, has served as chairman of Tando Bago union council. “He is our active team member and it [his arrest] is blatant kidnapping, nothing else,” reacted Zulfiqar’s spouse, Dr Fehmida Mirza, while taking to Dawn over phone after Khawaja’s arr