KARACHI: Sindh Governor, Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan has denied media reports about his resignation.
Sources in MQM said the Governor “is going nowhere. He’s working as usual”. Sources in the Governor House say everything is normal there.

Meanwhile, in a statement the Governor House said he never exercised his influence for provision of any sort of relief or concession to any culprit or convict.

Responding to media reports, he said there was absolutely no truth in the allegations and Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan has never compromised his personal integrity and the sacred responsibility reposed to him as governor of the province.

Being a ceremonial position the Governor was never in a position to provide any sort of cover to any criminal, culprit or convict no matter what their political affiliation may have been, reiterated the spokesman.

The reaction from Governor came in response to death row convict Saulat Mirza’s revelations against MQM and PPP leadership through a video tape.In a late night development on Wednesday, President Mamnoon Hussain deferred his execution that was stayed a few hours before he was to be sent to gallows in Balochistan’s Mach jail. 

"On the behest of party's London-based leader Altaf Hussain, Senator Babar Ghouri ordered the four of us to gun down Shahid Hamid, the then managing director of the power utility, Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (K-Electric) ," ex-MQM worker Mirza alleged.

He also accused the Governor of Sindh, Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad of using his authority to have the criminals find a safe passage. The Governor House, in a late night statement, denied these accusations in the strongest of words.

Mirza also dragged Pakistan People's Party (PPP) into the 'accusatory picture' by alleging that the MQM had had him facilitated when Asif Ali Zardari-led political party was in power.