PPP warns PML-N of tit for a tat

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdaus Ashiq Awan said on Wednesday that PML-N President Nawaz Sharif had backstabbed PPP leadership by forgetting that he owed to Benazir Bhutto for returning to the country. Speaking at a hurriedly convened press conference, Firdaus lashed out at the PML-N for targeting President Asif Ali Zardari by carrying out character assassination of the ‘symbol of federation’. The minister urged Nawaz not to unleash a covert war in Sindh under the guise of sympathising with the flood-affected people and rather urged him to adopt a political discourse in order to politically counter the PPP. “Rather than making covert political attacks in Sindh disguised as sympathising with the flood victims, Nawaz should make a political move and we will welcome him,” she said, adding that Sharif was shedding crocodile tears to win the support of flood victims but was doing nothing for them.