MQM demands information about the 45 workers who went missing during the targeted operation
- 10 years ago
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MQM’s Rabita Committee has demand information about workers who are victims of enforced disappearances within 24 hours. They added that police’s statement that they were not in their custody did not absolve them from their responsibility.
The Rabita Committee members said, “The police department would have to take action against policemen responsible for the torture on Muhammad Aadil and Salman Fahad, death of a senior citizen Meraj Uddin, who suffered heart attack because of police torture, which caused his death. They have to take action against the policemen responsible for the raid on MQM’s worker wedding and Fahad’s illegal detention and torture. They added that police department would have to prosecute them for torture and killings. They warned that if the department failed to arrest and prosecute them, then MQM would take tough stance and plan to deal with this situation.
“Police has been extorting 20 Crore a day from the citizens of Karachi. It is a tragedy that police has been given the task to launch an operation against extortionists. It appears that the city has been given to contractors to maintain order. Areas have been sold out to people who are not locals. Now these non-local policemen are recovering their money from the innocent people of Karachi by their illegal and biased actions, “Rabita Committee said.
“They are giving MQM workers third degree. They are threatening them to wipe out their race. They are hurling abuses at them. They are calling them Hindustani, “The Rabita Committee members expressed these views while addressing a hurriedly called press conference in the morning. Haider Abbas Rizvi, Amin-ul-Haque, Amir Khan, Wasay Jalil, Waseem Akhtar, Aadil Khan, Aslam Afridi and Rauf Siddiqui were present in the press conference too.
MQM’s Rabita Committee has demand information about workers who are victims of enforced disappearances within 24 hours. They added that police’s statement that they were not in their custody did not absolve them from their responsibility.
The Rabita Committee members said, “The police department would have to take action against policemen responsible for the torture on Muhammad Aadil and Salman Fahad, death of a senior citizen Meraj Uddin, who suffered heart attack because of police torture, which caused his death. They have to take action against the policemen responsible for the raid on MQM’s worker wedding and Fahad’s illegal detention and torture. They added that police department would have to prosecute them for torture and killings. They warned that if the department failed to arrest and prosecute them, then MQM would take tough stance and plan to deal with this situation.
“Police has been extorting 20 Crore a day from the citizens of Karachi. It is a tragedy that police has been given the task to launch an operation against extortionists. It appears that the city has been given to contractors to maintain order. Areas have been sold out to people who are not locals. Now these non-local policemen are recovering their money from the innocent people of Karachi by their illegal and biased actions, “Rabita Committee said.
“They are giving MQM workers third degree. They are threatening them to wipe out their race. They are hurling abuses at them. They are calling them Hindustani, “The Rabita Committee members expressed these views while addressing a hurriedly called press conference in the morning. Haider Abbas Rizvi, Amin-ul-Haque, Amir Khan, Wasay Jalil, Waseem Akhtar, Aadil Khan, Aslam Afridi and Rauf Siddiqui were present in the press conference too.