ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan expressed concern over Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s involvement in the matters of Sindh government.
According to the spokesman of PTI Chairman Imran Khan said that arrests by SSP Rao Anwar was made political by federal government’s intervention. Imran said such political interference is the reason why the police in Sindh and Punjab are unable to do their job and maintain effective law and order.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had suspended Rao Anwar when he arrested Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) leader Khawaja Izharul Hassan. “The arrest of an the MQM leader in Karachi by SSP Rao Anwar became a highly politicized issue once the Centre, on orders of the prime minister, interfered and compelled the Sindh CM to get the MQM leader released and SSP Rao Anwar suspended, despite the fact that the police officer was simply acting according to the law and in line with his duties,” the statement quoted Imran as having said.
Imran said that police was failing to bring peace in Sindh and Punjab due political interference whereas Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police was free of any political interference and that KP police was fully independent in performing its duties. The PTI chairman felt Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was feeling so threatened by the Panama Papers inquiry issue he was prepared to go to any lengths to appease the PPP and MQM – regardless of the total destruction of law enforcement along the way.
