A large number of well wishers, friends, relatives and political activists continued to throng the house of PPP's slain leader Munawwar Suharwardy to condole his death on Friday.
Suhrawardy was assassinated on the Business Recorder Road on Thursday. Seemingly, the assassination is being viewed as a targeted killing. No arrest has so far been made.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Ghulam Arbab Rahim has placed under suspension SHO Jamshed Quarters, Sohrab Mayo, and has ordered an inquiry against him as number of high profile crimes have gone up during the last three months.
This action has been taken after the assassination of Suhrawardy. Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai was also assassinated in the jurisdiction of Jamshed Quarters. It was another high profile assassination in the Jamshed Town police jurisdiction.
However, on the instructions of the party chairperson Benazir Bhutto the PPP and its supporters will be in mourning for three days, stage protest rallies and hold condolence meetings throughout Pakistan.
PPP members in the Sindh Assembly on Saturday would ask the speaker to adjourn the budget session for at least one day and meet again to resume its business on Monday.
Nisar Khuhro has said, "Karachi is in the hands of criminals that were moving scot-free and committing crimes here and there."
'ABANDONED CITY': He said that Karachi seemed to have become an abandoned city and no one was there to look after its residents. Nisar Khuhro said he did not know how long this situation would continue. "Who becomes the next target of a bullet is just a question one asks."
He has demanded of the government immediate arrest of the assassins of Munawwar Suhrawardy and protection of the lives of political leaders.
Shazia Marri, PPP MPA, has condemned the assassination of Suhrawardy and termed it a cowardly act of terrorists, who were freely committing crimes in the city.
COMPLETE ANARCHY: She said that there was a complete anarchy in the city and killings had become a matter of routine. "No one is there to take notice."
She said that the intelligence and law enforcement agencies had failed to perform their functions and one was supposed to protect oneself against the criminals.
She said that members of the Sindh Assembly, irrespective of the consideration they were on the treasury benches, should ask for one-day adjournment of the session and mourn the death of a senior political activist and human rights crusader.
Senior labour leader Habibuddin Junaidi has termed the assassination of Suhrawardy a loss to the people of Karachi.
He paid him rich tributes and said that he was emerging as a leader of national stature and was undoubtedly to replace many others in the political ring on the national and provincial scenes.
He said that Suhrawardy had no enemies and no one to fight with. Junaidi said that the way he was assassinated showed that there was no fear of law and order and the law enforcement agencies had lost their deterrent value.
He said that rangers and frontier constabulary staff were stationed near the spot of the assassination but none of them reacted on the incident. He said that the Sindh Assembly should adjourn its budget session on Saturday and mourn the assassination of Suhrawardy and other who have lost their lives at the hands of terrorists.
Police sources still draw a blank as far as any clue to the assassins is concerned. They have issued sketches of the assassins prepared with the help of a guard posted at a shop nearby the spot of incident and the rickshaw driver who took Suhrawardy to the Aga Khan Hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.
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