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Target killing is conspiracy of linguistic riots: Wasan

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Sindh Interior Minister said that target killing is a conspiracy of linguistic riots in Karachi.

Talking to the media, Interior Minister Sindh Manzoor Wasan said that the police have been directed to control the incidents of tareg killing.To a question, he said that the phone numbers from which threat SMS was sent to woman members of Sindh Assembly have been traced out. He assured stern action against those who threatened assembly members.Earlier, Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) MPA Nusrat Seher Abbasi told the Sindh Assembly that she and other MPAs had received threatening text messages over the resolution they had moved in the assembly on Friday against the graffiti et al seen in Karachi calling for a Mohajir province.Abbasi, who spoke on a point of order, said the text message warned MPAs to understand their fate if they ever passed a similar resolution. She said she would not back down despite the threats.Abbasi and several legislators from the PML-F, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and National Peoples Party had moved the resolution on Friday, which was passed unanimously.
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