The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday rejected all the allegations levelled by the former Sindh minister Zulfiqar Mirza and termed the entire allegation fabricated. Speaking at a hurriedly called press conference at the party headquarters MQM leader Faisal Sabzwari said that Altaf Hussain is a patriot and the MQM is the party of those who launched Pakistan Movement.
The MQM leader said that Mirza in his past statement had expressed his wish to dismember Pakistan. Had he any concern with bringing peace in Karachi, he would have supported undiscriminating and across the board action against terrorists and criminal elements in Karachi, but he fiercely opposed action against the dissolved Peoples Amn Committee in every government meeting, according to Sabzwari.
Sabzwari said Zulfiqar Mirza started making baseless allegations not only against the MQM but also the government, Federal Interior Minister, Governor Sindh and PPP leaders Agha Siraj Durrani and Babar Awan as soon as the Rangers moved against the terrorists of gang war in Lyari, finished no-go areas, arrested criminals, recovered weapons and discovered torture cells.
He alleged that Zulfiqar Mirza did this in a bid to stop action against the criminal elements and to influence the suo motu action taken by the Supreme Court against bloodshed, mayhem and extortion mafia in Karachi. "As far as the reports of the Joint Investigation Teams (JITs) are concerned we maintain that unless the guilt is established in a court of law, the accused should be considered as innocent. Hundreds of cases were made against the MQM in order to defame it and harm its credibility in the public", he noted.
From stealing the cap of a policeman to Jinnahpur and from the murder of a common man to Hakim Saeed, false cases were registered against the MQM workers but they have been honourably discharged from all cases through courts, he added.
He said Zulfiqar Mirza should prove the allegations in the courts instead of showing them on the media. He should let the courts do their work and not become the judge and the jailer himself. We want the action against the criminal elements in Karachi to proceed indiscriminately and no leniency should be shown to anyone involved in criminal offences. He appealed the workers, sympathisers, and the general public not to get provoked at inflammatory and absurd allegations. We would ask them to restrain their emotions and know that Allah is All-seeing and the best of all judges.
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