PPP leader Sharmila Faruqui has slammed the Jamaat-e-Islami for making an alliance with the PTI before the Karachi mayor elections, saying that the Sindh-ruling party would not leave Karachi in the hands of a “rioter [PTI]”.“The PTI has returned to its original state of 2018. The people who were given to them via selection have returned and left them,” she said.
“These are those who created mutiny on May 9 and the Jamaat-e-Islami is the party which instead of condemning the events on May 9 had an alliance on May 9. These are those people who want to bring mutiny in this country.
We will not leave Karachi in the hands of any rioter. This is their issue. Their elected MNAs and MPAs left them, maybe their conscience was awakened.” She, who was joined by GDA leader Saira Bano and JI’s Ayesha Syed on the show, was responding to a query pertaining to claims of AML chief Sheikh Rashid and PTI leader that there was a deal in Dubai for UC chairmen. The party also claimed that their town members were also abducted. Karachi’s local body representatives elected PPP’s Murtaza Wahab as the city’s mayor on Thursday, according to unofficial results. Out of a total of 333 votes, Murtaza secured 173 votes against JI’s Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, who got 160 votes.But the elections were marred by clashes between JI and PPP supporters outside the Arts Council of Pakistan in Karachi.When asked about Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s claims, Faruqui replied that the Imran Khan-led party should avoid teaching them about democracy as the PTI leader could not bear incarceration like the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader have done in the past.“PPP may have won but democracy has lost,” Qureshi tweeted.
