KARACHI: Rejecting the MQM-P allegations, Sindh Senior Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party leader Sharjeel Inam Memon has said that the MQM-P criticises his party only to `revive its dead politics`. In a statement on Thursday, he said Karachi traders had expressed full confidence in PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardariand thanked him for ensuring that they `no longer receive extortion slips or find bodies in gunny bags`.

According to him, MQM criticises only to provoke a response, hoping to increase its political stature.

In his separate statement, Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab, who is also the spokesperson for the Sindh government, termed the MQM-P presser `a bundle of lies`, called its leaders `political orphans` and said that the party had been rejected by the people of Karachi.

In his reaction, Bilawal House Spokesman Surendar Valasai said that the PPP chairman`s assurance to Karachi`s businessmen of complete protection from extortionists had left MQM-P sleepless.