MQM-P’S leader Nasreen named new governor of Sindh province

ISLAMABAD: As the federal government has decided to appoint Mutahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) senior leader Nasreen Jalil as the governor of Sindh, paving the way for her becoming the second female governor in the province’s history ater Begum Raana Liaquat Ali Khan who served in the 1970s, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) has criticised this purported decision.

In his comment on social media, former federal information minister Fawad Chaudhry said the “crime minister” has proposed the name of Nasreen Jalil as Sindh governor. He claimed that she had writen a leter to the Indian high commissioner on June 18, 2015, and sought ‘help’ against Pakistan’s law enforcement agencies. “It is sad that the ‘mess’ in Karachi which was cleared by security institutions was being brought again.”

Former Sindh governor Imran Ismail also scoffed at this reported decision of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on identical grounds.

Ismail said in his comment on social media that it appears that in order to become part of the present government it has become ‘imperative’ that one should be on bail or an “expert of vicious atacks” on security institutions.

Responding to criticism by the PTI leaders, MQM-P senior leader and federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Senator Faisal Subzwari commented on social media that the leter was writen to all diplomats.

He admited that it was the party office’s mistake that the name of an Indian diplomat was not excluded from the list of diplomats. However, this leter had surfaced in 2015 and its contents were before everyone.

Secondly, Subzwari added, former premier Imran Khan had torched electricity bills in protest and also given a call for civil disobedience movement in the past. He asked if the former premier and his colleagues had come to know about these things ater they were ousted from power.

The MQM-P leader pointed out that the letter was writen to all diplomats as well as the prime minister, president, army chief and the chief justice of Pakistan at that time.