Banned PAC members: cases' withdrawal termed serious blow to MQM-PPP alliance

Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) Co-ordination Committee while condemning the decision of provincial law ministry to withdraw criminal cases against the members of banned People's Aman Committee said that the move had dealt a serious blow to the MQM-PPP alliance.
The Co-ordination Committee met in Karachi and London on Thursday after provincial law ministry decided to withdraw criminal cases against the PAC members. The meeting observed that MQM had entered into an alliance with the PPP for the progress and prosperity of the people of Sindh and for promoting unity among the permanent residents of Sindh. Despite this the PPP leaders continued to openly support the 'notorious terrorists' in their enmity towards the MQM, it alleged.
The Committee said that the terrorists of PAC kidnapped Urdu-speaking citizens after ascertaining their identities and taking them out of buses. "They were taken to different areas of Lyari where they were subjected to inhuman physical torture. Their bodies were hacked into pieces which were thrown in different parts of the city," it added.
It said that the withdrawal of cases against the killers "forces us to believe that the killers of Lyari gang war enjoy full support of the government. The PPP has itself closed the doors of the prospect of any future electoral alliance with the MQM by taking back the cases." It further said that nothing was finalised as yet about any electoral alliance with the PPP or any other political party but the PPP had betrayed MQM by withdrawing cases against the terrorists.