Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain is a traitor like arrested Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav and should be handed a death sentence as well, Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Sial said while addressing a ceremony in Karachi on Tuesday.

Sial said the Sindh government has already written to the federal government asking it to issue red warrants for Hussain. "It is now the responsibility of the federal government to issue the red warrants," he said.

Sial also took on the former president Pervez Musharraf and former home minister Zulfikar Mirza for accusing PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari of involvement in Benazir Bhutto's murder.

"Why did Pervez Musharraf do nothing against Asif Zardari when he was the president?" Sial asked. "Zulfiqar Mirza was the Sindh home minister [at the time]. Why did he not speak then?"

The PPP leader said the provincial government has requested the federal government to suspend cellphone services on the 9th and 10th of Muharram.

The Sindh home minister also credited the Pakistan Army, Sindh government and Rangers for bringing peace to the province.