Saeed Ghani lashes out at SSP Rizwan, terms police official as 'third-rate man'.

KARACHI -- Sindh Information Minister Saeed Ghani on Friday blasted Shikarpur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Muhammad Rizwan Ahmed Khan for leveling accusations against him and his brother.

During a press conference in Karachi, Saeed Ghani termed Khan as a "third-class, third-rate man" and accused the SSP of protecting drug dealers. The Sindh information minister was referring to an earlier report prepared by SSP Rizwan - when he was posted in Karachi - in which he had accused some politicians, including Ghani, of protecting criminals involved in drug-related crimes.

The press conference comes a day after a report, prepared by the SSP, emerged in which Rizwan had accused PPP lawmaker and Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Sheikh of patronising criminals and using them for political and financial gains.

Ghani, in his press conference on Friday, demanded Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to initiate an inquiry against him and vowed to not only leave politics and all the offices he occupied but also present himself for the "strictest punishment" if any allegation against him was proven to be true.

"I have worked very hard to earn respect in politics," the PPP leader said. "A third-rate police officer like him (Rizwan) cannot be allowed to play with people's reputation for his own personal and heinous purposes."

Ghani said that some of his relatives were involved in drug-related crimes, but he had never supported them.

The information minister said that when SSP Rizwan was posted in Karachi's Chanesar Goth, Saeed's constituency, drug-related crimes went up. After being elected MPA in 2013, Ghani met the additional inspector general and deputy inspector general to complain that police are not taking enough measures to curb drug-related crimes in his area, after which action was taken against those involved in dealing.

However, Ghani told reporters on Friday...

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