Pakistan Peoples Party has condemned the statement of PML-Q president, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain saying that hundreds of PPP workers were killed in the Karachi blasts and to call it a conspiracy is 'shameful'. In a joint statement issued here on Tuesday.
PPP leaders Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, Malik Ahmed Hussain Dehar, Khalid Hanif Lodhi, Khurshid Ahmed Khan and Khawaja Rizwan Alam said: "we vehemently condemn Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, chief of PML who gave a new twist to Karachi blasts when he said that PPP itself hatched the conspiracy of the blasts on October 18 in which over 140 innocent people died and almost 500 sustained injuries."
Earlier on Monday, Shujaat Hussain had said that the Karachi blasts that killed 140 people were a scripted conspiracy conceived by PPP Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto's spouse Asif Ali Zardari. Zardari "hatched a conspiracy and they implemented it," Shujaat said, noting Bhutto had gone into the bus just before the explosions.
He said the blasts were the PPP's conspiracy to gain the sympathies of people both inside and outside the country. "None of PPP central leadership is killed or injured which shows it was a PPP conspiracy to show itself innocent," he added.
He said no consensus could be reached with the PPP if it kept making allegations, like it naming Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi in the first information report (FIR) of the Karachi blasts. Shujaat Hussain said political reconciliation with PPP could not be possible if PPP's leadership didn't avoid the game of allegations.
He said, on one hand, PPP has got registered an FIR against Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, while on the other hand, it was talking of reconciliation. How can reconciliation be possible in these circumstances, he questioned, adding that it rather indicated their intentions to sabotage political reconciliation process.
Shujaat delivered an irresponsible and lamentable statement PPP leaders said and added that no sensible citizen of Pakistan could have such ill-concept about the incident and President General Pervez Musharraf should take notice of his utterance.