Concerned Citizens Forum (CCF), a forum of civil society organisations has urged all political parties to identify miscreants/militants within their ranks and expose them for appropriate punitive action as per the law of the land.
Addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club here Saturday, the leaders of CCF including former Justice Rashid A. Razvi, Fatima Surriya Bajiya, Niloffer Farrukh, Karamat Ali, former Ambassador Mehdi Masood urged government and political leadership to take immediate steps to restore peace and stability in the city.
They called for immediate and permanent stop to all calls for shutter down/wheel jam strikes by political parties or any other group. They said that protest and political rallies should be restricted to designated areas in the city and under no circumstances should they be allowed to take place on main thoroughfares and commercial or industrial areas. This invariably leads to disruption of peace and economic activity, which has damaged the image of Karachi as a dependable supplier of goods and services.
They called for complete ban on display of weapons by political party workers and any worker of any party if found doing so, that party's leadership should be held accountable for this violation. This will create an environment for complete de-weaponisation of the city. They urged the government to declare political wall chalking as illegal as it incites hatred and violence. Provincial authorities should be ordered to whitewash all wall chalking with immediate effect in the city. The participants later demonstrated in front of KPC for peace in the city.
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