The photocopy of the residence permit (Iqama) allegedly of former president Asif Zardari doing rounds on the social media is fake, fabricated and photo shopped to malign and discredit the former president and the PPP and is the handiwork of those who wish to bring into disrepute the entire political class. "This is most reprehensible and is deeply deplored and condemned", said spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar in a statement here on Saturday.
He said that Zardari has been validly granted visa by the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Abu Dhabi on the basis of which he visits stays in the UAE. The former president does not hold any work visa or residence permit as an employee or partner in some private firm as wrongly claimed in the fake iqama doing rounds on social media, he said. After the disqualification of the Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court, a vicious and mysterious campaign seems to have been mounted by vested interests to malign and discredit elected representatives of the people and the political class as a whole, he said.
Deploring this Farhatullah Babar said that launching such malicious campaign against the former President, the PPP and the political class as a whole will do no good either to those behind it or to the country as a whole. Those wishing to paint black Zardari, the PPP and the elected representatives as a whole should pause, ponder and look inwardly whether they also may have some skeletons. If they do they might realise that they too have many questions to answer but have escaped accountability, he said.-PR