Former Sindh home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza claimed on Saturday he had a meeting, spanning over two hours, with ISI chief Gen Shuja Pasha a few days ago and handed over, as he put it, evidence against the Muttahida Qaumi Movement...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
based on documents which he had carried with him in a briefcase.
"I have left some of the copies of documents with the ISI chief," he said in an interview to a private channel.
"This was my second meeting with Gen Pasha and President Zardari knew about it," he added.
Dr Mirza said that he did nothing without permission from President
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About the operation in Bloody Karachi, he said: "Orders for the arrest of killers came from above, but Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
(the interior minister) was taking credit. Rehman Malik has no courage to arrest the killers."
He disputed an impression that the army was against the PPP government. "Postal ballots show the majority in the armed forces has always supported PPP. Only generals like Ayub Khan, Ziaul Haq and
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disliked the party," Dr Mirza claimed. "The army always wants to assist the civilian government."
The former provincial minister said although he was ready to appear before the Supreme Court to testify against the MQM, he would appear only if he was assured that he would be free to recall the "past and the present in its entirety".
In reply to another question, he said if he was forced to record his statement, he would not utter a single word until his terms and conditions were accepted.
In reply to a question about his slogan Pakistain Khappe (we don't want Pakistain) after the liquidation of Benazir Bhutto, he said his words were misunderstood. "I had merely said the liquidation had disillusioned the masses about Pakistain, but Zardari has saved Pakistain by raising the slogan "Pakistain Khappe".
"Pakistain will live for ever," Dr Mirza said.
In reply to another question, he said if at any stage President Asif Zardari realised that his aides were keeping him in the dark about "ground realities", he would not hesitate to assist Mr Zardari.
He did not agree with a perception that his inflammatory rhetoric was harming the PPP, arguing that lust for wealth was the party's worst enemy.