BADIN: Pakistan Peoples Party MNA Dr Fehmida Mirza, who travelled from Karachi to her family`s besieged farmhouse late on Tuesday night, held a second press conference within 24 hours on Wednesday afternoon to express her resentment over `constant violations of court orders` regarding provision of security to her and her husband Dr Zulfikar Mirza.

She told the crowded press conference at Maurjhar, a couple of kilometres from Badin city, that she was outraged and extremely concerned over the police siege to the farmhouse and registration of more and more FIRs against her husband `for raising voice of thepoor oppressed people of Badin` `There were two [FIRs] registered against Dr Mirza and his associates a couple of days ago and during the siege when he is confined to the farmhouse, the number of cases shot to seven and, I don`t know, even more,` an angry MNA, who is also a former speaker of the National Assembly, argued waving copies of some of the FIRs.

`I demand that all these fake FIRs be withdrawn at once,` she said.

`I want to know as to who is behind all this. The chief minister must be ashame d ... the police of ficers I talked to expressed their unawareness ... they even don`t know why the police force was still there ... the media late on Tuesday night showed the police contingent hav-ing laid a siege to the farmhouse withdrawing but when I reached there at around 4am today, the siege was there. It appeared that the police vans were driven to some small villages next to the farmhouse just to give the impression of withdrawal,` she went on, and asked the authorities concerned what they actually wanted to do [with the Mirza family].

The former speaker recalled her and her family`s role when the PPP led by Benazir Bhutto had been struggling for democracy and was faced with oppression. `I was among the few who were in the forefront,` she said, and questioned the treatment being meted out to her and her spouse now by the same PPP. At whose behest this all is being done? she repeatedly asked.Insisting that most of the FIRs were fake, she said so much so that a person who had been bedridden for long had been nominated as a suspect and there were big numbers of `unknown` suspects in the FIRs leaving space for the police to book anyone by filling in the names.

Warning that she was losing her patience, she said she should not be compelled to go to the extent where Dr Sahib [her spouse] was made to go to. She said the PPP was her everything home, family, asset and whatever and that`s way she did not want to do anything that could cause harm to the party. She advised the chief minister to come to his senses and refrain from doing what was being done to her family.

She reminded those behind theregistration of FIRs and the police action thatshe despite beingacancer patient had the courage to fight such things and go repeatedly to courts. Make no mistake, she warned.

She also urged the chief justices of the Supreme Court and the Sindh High Court to take notice of the situation.

Earlier, former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza told the media that he could not compromise on the interests of Sindh. He said whatever he was doing was for getting people rid of injustices.

A late evening report suggested that the police force had been withdrawn from Maurjhar farmhouse and crowds of people were seen walking into the area to meet the Mirza family.