Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) alleged that criminal elements of Lyari Aman Committee and gang war are using sophisticated weapons in recent terrorist activities in which scores of innocent citizens lost their lives. Addressing a news conference at MQM headquarters MQM leader Raza Haroon said armed terrorists belonging to the gang war have once again resorted to kidnapping and killing against each other in the holy month of Ramadan.
Consequently, former MNA of the PPP Waja Karim Dad and several other people were killed and injured, Raza noted. He said that these are the same elements that do not want the process of reconciliation between the MQM and the PPP to become strong, and hence they continue to derail the reconciliatory process every now and then through their vile conspiracies.
It is therefore necessary that the persons responsible for spoiling the peace of Karachi and their sponsors be unveiled, he urged. "The armed conflicts between terrorists of gang war have been continuing relentlessly for several years. These terrorists have been using lethal weapons as well as rocket launchers and hand grenades against each other", MQM leader stressed.
He lambasted that it is unfortunate that the government, police and the administration stood as silent spectators besides armed terrorists attacked each other openly, the kidnapped people of the opposing groups, and created panic and fear in the old city areas of Karachi Raza Haroon said the fight between terrorists had nothing to do with political parties and the MQM's decision to join the government would be made with the national interest in mind.
Raza Haroon informed the media that the majority of those kidnapped and killed during the last two days were Urdu speaking and demanded that PPP leaders 'who were supervising these terrorists be stopped immediately'. Peace and stability in Karachi is of utmost importance for the economic development of the country, and Pakistan is acting as a frontline state against terrorism. Haroon appealed to the international community to use its influence to stop the mass killing being orchestrated against Urdu speakers.
Haroon laid emphasis that the genocide of the Urdu-speaking people in Karachi should be stopped immediately and complete protection should be provided to the people living in Lyari and elsewhere in the city. Raza suspected that fighting of the gang war is deliberately being spread in different localities under a well-planned scheme.
The apathetic attitude of the government and administration makes it very clear that they want to hand over old city areas of Karachi to the criminals and terrorists of the underworld like Columbia, he charged. He demanded of President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Governor Sindh Dr Ishrat-ul Ibad, Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah and Provincial Home Minister Manzoor Hussain Wassan to take a serious view of the gang war continuing relentlessly in Lyari. Kidnapping of Urdu-speaking people in different parts of Karachi and their genocide should be stopped immediately. Bloodthirsty killers should be brought to justice and given exemplary punishment, and the citizens should be given security without any discrimination, he added.
MQM leader appealed to the peaceful people of Karachi, particularly the families of those who lost their loved ones at the hands of the gang war terrorists, not to get provoked by acts of terrorism and defeat the conspiracy to destroy peace and tranquility in Karachi by maintaining calm and remaining peaceful. Raza Haroon expressed condolences to the mournful families of the people who have been killed by the terrorist. He prayed for their divine forgiveness and eternal peace and speedy recovery of the injured. May Allah curse the terrorists who have killed so many people even in the holy month of Ramadan, he concluded.
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