PPP stalwart Zulfiqar Mirza of Sindh has declared on a TV Channel that a traitor of PPP deserves death penalty. He was obviously referring to dissidents of PPP stating their open differences with the high command. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has repeatedly said that difference of opinion is beauty of democracy but Mr Mirza condemns the dissenters as traitors of PPP that deserve death. Since when the PPP has started to think that it is the embodiment of State of Pakistan. There are other stakeholders and opposition parties as well as army, executive and judiciary that constitute the totality of State of Pakistan. The extremist views harboured by Mr Mirza are not only in bad taste but also invite legal questions in the form of attributing powers of death sentence in an extra judicial manner which the party Co-Chairman ought to curb so that the PPP does not acquire fascist tendencies. Dr. Muhammad Yaqoob Bhatti, Lahore, December 3.