HARMING NATIONAL SECURITY INSTITUTIONS IS EQUAL TO HARMING PAKISTAN: ALTAF HUSSAIN

KARACHI: 12TH JULY 2011:

The Founder and Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Mr Altaf Hussain has said that the government was plotting against the armed forces, the ISI and institutions responsible for the national security in collusion with the superpower USA. He said this while addressing a joint meeting of the co-ordination committee of the MQM in London and Karachi. Office-bearers of various wings of the MQM were also present on the occasion.

Speaking about national security, national self-esteem, conspiracies against institutions responsible for the national security, mounting US pressure on Pakistan and reprehensible conspiratorial attitude of the government, Mr Hussain said that the present government was contriving against political opponents and the MQM. He said that despite the fact that the MQM stood by the government in its difficult times and proved to be its most trusted and strongest ally, but the manner in which the government had stabbed MQM in the back was known to the people of Pakistan and the international community.

Addressing intellectuals, analysts, anchor persons, and people belonging to different walks of life Mr Hussain said that the government was not only taking anti-people actions and resorting to dictatorial policies towards the MQM but it was also conspiring against the armed forces, the ISI and other institutions responsible for national security. He said that harming the institutions responsible for national security was equal to harming the country. It was, therefore, the responsibility of the intellectuals, analysts, and anchor persons to inform the people about the conspiracies against the armed forces and institutions responsible for national security. He said that the nation should prove with their unity that they were with the armed forces and the national security institutions.

 

MEETING OF LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERTS AT NINE ZERO FOR
FILING CONSTITUTIONAL PETITION AGAINST COMMISSIONERATE SYSTEM

KARACHI: 12TH JULY 2011:

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has started the preparation of a constitutional petition against the imposition of commissionerate system in Sindh in consultation with legal and constitutional experts. An emergency meeting of the committee consisting of legal and constitutional experts belonging to the MQM was held in Khursheed Begum Secretariat under the Co-ordination Committee of the party. Noted lawyers and constitutional experts from Karachi and different parts of Pakistan deliberated about the commissionerate system and exchanged views for the preparation of a constitutional petition. Historical documents have been collected that will be made a substantive part of the petition.

 

MQM DENOUNCES SHIFTING OF ITS INCARCERATED WORKERS TO JAILS IN INTERIOR SINDH

KARACHI: 12TH JULY 2011:

The Co-ordination Committee of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has strongly condemned the shifting of jailed workers of the MQM to interior Sindh. The committee blasted the PPP for torturing the jailed workers of the MQM and asked it go so far as with its tyranny as it could itself bear in future. The co-ordination committee said that the jailed workers of the MQM were being subjected to physical torture at the behest of the provincial ministers for jail Zulfikar Mirza and the MQM was being punished for coming out of the government.

The co-ordination committee said that the MQM has become a part of the opposition. It was because of this decision of the party that the bloodshed of the Mohajirs was started in Qasba Colony. Later on the despotic commissionerate system was imposed in Sindh and now the incarcerated workers of the MQM were being subjected to physical torture and highhandedness.

The Co-ordination Committee said that they were appealing to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Chaudhry Iftakhar, Chief Justice of Sindh High Court and human rights organizations to take notice of the inhuman treatment to the jailed MQM workers by the PPP and Zulfikar Mirza.

The Co-ordination Committee said that it had warned the PPP earlier as well to mend ways and stop its oppressive actions and injustices else it would have itself to blame for the ensuing circumstances. The Co-ordination Committee said that the inhuman treatment meted out to the MQM workers in jails was the violation of basic human rights.

The Co-ordination Committee asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court to take serious notice of shifting of the MQM workers in the jails in interior Sindh and subjecting them to inhuman physical torture in closed wards and appealed that the jailed workers of the MQM should be provided the legal and constitutional protection available to them under constitution.

 

HIGHLY PLACED GOVERNMENT PERSONALITY WANTS TO MAKE
HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF KESC: DR FAROOQ SATTAR

KARACHI: 12TH JULY 2011:

Deputy Convener of the Co-ordination Committee of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Dr Farooq Sattar has appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take notice of frequent disruptions in gas supply to the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) at the behest of a highly placed personality of the government. Dr Sattar appealed to Chief Justice to foil to conspiracy of forceful takeover of the KESC.

Dr Sattar said that a well-placed government personality was busy in nefarious conspiracy to make forceful take-over of the KESC against the wishes of the owners who do not want to sell the company. The high government personality was using unconstitutional, illegal and unethical methods after the attempts to forcefully buy the company through threats and intimidation did not bear fruit.

Dr Sattar said that it was because of this failure of the high government personality to take over the KESC that the supply of gas started being disrupted continually. Dr Sattar said that frequent disruptions in supply of gas to the KESC have resulted in prolonged power outages and if the gas supply was not restored the people of Karachi could face power outages for several days. The government would later on take over the company on the pretext of prolonged power outages.

Dr Sattar said that it was reprehensible on the part of the high government personality to create untold miseries for the citizens of Karachi for fulfilling its nefarious objectives. Dr Sattar appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan to take notice of the misuse of power by the high government personality and subjecting the people of Karachi to miseries of long hours of load-shedding. He asked the Chief Justice to play his legal and constitutional role for ensuring normal gas supply to the KESC.