KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Thursday vowed to continue protest campaign till the release of last worker allegedly kept in the custody of law enforcers.
Scores of people including women and children staged protest outside the Karachi Press Club against the extrajudicial killing and disappearance of workers affiliated with the MQM. The MQM workers gathered outside the KPC along with the families of disappeared party activists.
They held police and rangers responsible and chanted slogans against the law enforcers. They demanded the Prime Minister and Chief Justice to take suo moto notice of the incidents and order to immediate recovery of their loved ones.
On the occasion, MQM leaders alleged that plainclothes personnel of law enforcers were behind the abduction and extrajudicial killing of MQM workers. MQM leader Farooq Sattar said the party wants the supremacy of constitution and law. If the assassins of MQM workers, allegedly killed beyond the law, will not be arrested then the MQM will start actual protest demonstrations. “This protest is a trailer and the whole film is yet to be started.” He said the current turmoil was also violation of Article 9 of the constitution because the law defines that arrested persons should be charged within 24 hours. He urged for making legislation against the terrorism but warned that such laws would not be used for political rivalry because all such brutalities will not enough to bow down the MQM.
He said the same law enforces could not get inside the area dominated by Taliban militants because these terrorists were showering rocket launcher at them. He demanded release of 45 missing workers of the MQM.
Haider Abbas Rizvi said it was the symbolic protest but the history of Karachi witnessed that those started brutalism in Karachi actually started its own countdown.
“We used to see such protest of families at Nine Zero as families of the MQM missing workers have daily been asking us to produce people detained in the custody of law enforcers. Therefore, MQM has decided to start protest campaign till the release of our activists. He called Prime Minister that the black law of Pakistan Protection Ordinance is being used against the MQM.”
Ashfaq Mangi, member of MQM Coordination Committee, said similar situation alike Balochistan was being created in Karachi. He questioned what will happen if the people of Karachi would start acting like Baluchistan? Extreme grief was visible in the protest where mothers, sisters of missing workers were carrying posters and demanded the release of their sons. Families alleged that how their loved ones were abducted by the uniformed and plainclothes personnel of law enforcers.