Pakistan Peoples Party leader and Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that what were the actual reasons that Sindh Home Department issued special orders to disarm the police 24 hours ahead of the arrival of the Chief Justice of Pakistan in Karachi, and why the route and time of MQM's rally in dictator's favour were kept secret.
In a press statement issued here, the PPP leader said if the general masses and patriotic forces should try to extract the answers of certain questions arising out in the background of Musharraf Bachao Rally by MQM, they would know as to what message General Musharraf was trying to pass on to judiciary and secret agencies by using his MQM tool.
Nisar Khuhro rejected all the clarifications and contradictions of the MQM following the killing of innocent political workers at the hands of its terrorist wing. It has now become a black chapter of the history that MQM terrorists gunned down the innocent people in Karachi just to save the power of a dictator General. He said MQM leaders were not answering the questions as to why it chose Sharae Faisal for its terrorist activities from where the procession was scheduled to move to receive the Chief Justice of Pakistan. Why all the protective arrangements by Police and Rangers were limited to MQM's Musharraf Bachao Rally at Tibet Centre? The government owe clarification as to who was issuing orders to the private militia mounted at the overhead bridges on Sharae Faisal under some "particular police officials" and why the Police and Rangers were ordered to close their eyes on all the incidents taking place in front of them.
He said that people also deserve to know as to why the containers, trucks and buses with punctured tyres parked on Sharae Faisal and around the Sindh High Court building were not removed despite the orders of the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court to open the route for Chief Justice of Pakistan to come to SHC premises to address the bar association? Why the IGP Sindh told the SHC that he is powerless?
Nisar Khuhro further said that scenario on May 12 in Karachi could well be judged from the reported fact that Corps Commander, Karachi sent message to the Chief Justice of Sindh High Court and regretted to appear on the court notice due to the security problem. He further said that if MQM had no objection to Chief Justice of Pakistan's address to SHCBA then it must tell the people why its terrorists along with some particular police personnel occupied the City Court buildings in the night between May 11 and 12? And on May 12, at 10 am the Ladies Wing of the bar was burnt down and City Court was effectively made no-go area for the lawyers.
The PPP leader said that that MQM's clarifications are not acceptable to the people of Pakistan because its MNA Haider Abbas Rizvi still continues to harp everywhere that May 12 history would be repeated in Karachi whenever an announcement is made by the Chief Justice of Pakistan to visit Karachi. Even before May 12, the Advisor to Chief Minister on Home Affairs Waseem Akhtar had been saying that if CJP wants to come to Karachi crossing dead bodies then he should come and he proved his threat right.
Meanwhile, the Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has expressed concern over the recovery of unidentified dead body in a gunny bag in Karachi on Monday and demanded the federal government to ensure the recovery of all the workers of ARD and other opposition parties who are missing since May 12. The PPP leader reminded that a party worker Muhammad Sarwar was kidnapped from his home in Korangi by armed MQM terrorists and was killed before throwing his body on a footpath. In the past also, several patriotic political parties were given 'gifts' of dead bodies in gunny bags thus the workers of the patriotic political parties are again under threat in Karachi.