PPP leader Shehla Raza receives death threats

KARACHI: Deputy Speaker of the Sindh Assembly and Pakistan People’s Party leader Shehla Raza has received death threats.

Shehla Raza said that she received a letter from an address in Rawalpindi this morning at her office. The letter written in Urdu demanded a sum of Rs 50 million. Otherwise, it said, Raza will meet the same fate as Benazir Bhutto. The letter added that failure to pay the sum will result in a bomb blast at the Sindh Assembly.

DG Rangers and Police IG have been informed of this letter.

Additional IG CTD meets Shehla Raza

Additional IG Counter Terrorism Department Sanaullah Abbasi reached the Sindh Assembly to meet Shehla Raza on Tuesday.

Speaking to the media, Raza said that if you speak against evil you are bound to get threats. She added that her party had always been vocal against terrorism.

She said that she has handed a list of phone numbers from which she received threats to the police. She added that some of them come from international phone numbers including a London phone number, however the phone caller speaks clear Urdu.

In 2008 Shehla Raza claimed she had received threatening phone calls for speaking out against a militant outfit.

Fake phone number written on letter

A phone number written on the letter belongs to a man named Abdul Basit, a resident of Jhang, who claims he did not any threatening note to the deputy speaker.

He added that he had 25 acres of disputed land at Naushero Feroz. Speaking to Geo News, he said that three people Shahzeb Panhur, Sikander Goraya and Shabbir Khan Jan had given him life threats. He said he had filed a request against them with the Rangers.