MQM to hold countrywide protest over missing workers
Protest rallies will be held in Karachi on Thursday and across the country on Friday.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has accused that the plain clothes officials were abducting party workers.
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, MQM leader Haider Abbas Rizvi said that pain clothes officials of law enforcement agencies were abducting MQM workers but police had denied any involvement in the raids.
He said that 21 missing workers of the party were not produced in the court so far. He said that the MQM was following all legal ways for the recovery of the workers.
The MQM leader said that families of the activists were waiting for any news regarding their loved ones. Haider Abbas Rizvi said that the MQM had demanded a stern action against criminal elements but it was receiving mutilated bodies of the workers. He demanded restoration of law and order in Karachi.
Haider Abbas Rizvi announced that the MQM would stage protest in Karachi against the disappearance of its workers while protest demonstrations would also be held across the country on Friday.
Earlier, addressing a luncheon hosted on behalf of MQM chief Altaf Hussain in honour of journalists and journalist unions, Haider Abbas Rizvi said that Protection of Pakistan Ordinance was being implemented in Karachi as innocent workers of MQM were being abducted from their homes and later killed in an extra judicial. He urged the journalist organizations to raise their voice on international level against these black laws.
Rizvi said that deprived Baloch people were being neglected but the negotiations were being held with the TTP terrorists who killed more than 60,000 innocent Pakistanis.
On the other hand, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) provincial lawmakers vehemently protested in the Sindh Assembly over what they called ‘extra-judicial killings’ of the party workers in Karachi. The session began with Deputy Speaker Shehla Raza in the chair.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Muhammad Hussain submitted an adjournment motion against extra-judicial killings and arrests of party works. Provincial minister Dr Sikandar Mendro declared that motion is against Sindh Assembly’s regulations.
MQM MPA Khawaja Izharul Hassan said Sindh government is answerable to every incident of killing in the city. Where should they go if the matter could not be raised in the house.
Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon asserted that either it is extra-judicial killing or targeted killing, both are condemnable.
How the motion presented in the assembly can prove that political workers were killed extra-judicially, he added.
Sharjeel Memon said that names and evidence against police and Rangers personnel involved in extra-judicial killings should be submitted in the assembly.
The debate lasted for around 35 minutes. It irked the MQM members who tore down copies of the agenda, rising in their seats, chanting slogans against the government, demanding that the house should debate the issue.
The protest created chaos in the house which compelled the acting speaker to adjourn the session till Friday.
