JOINT MEETING OF THE MQM CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE LAMENTS OVERT SUPPORT TO ANP TERRORISTS

ACTS OF VANDALISM, ARSON AND KILLING NEGATE THE DECLARED PRETEXT OF STRIKE CALL

KARACHI: 4TH JUNE 2011

A joint meeting of the Co-ordination Committee of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Pakistan was held in London and Karachi simultaneously to discuss the situation in Karachi during the violent strike called by Awami National Party (ANP) on Thursday, the 3rd June. The Co-ordination Committee strongly condemned the killing of five people including the personnel of police and rangers as a result of indiscriminate firing by armed terrorists belonging to the ANP. The Committee deplored brazen acts of violence, arson, injuring of a large number of people in firing and holding the areas of Mai Kulachi Road, Kati Pahari, Banaras, Metroville, Landhi and Sohrab Goth hostage at the point of gun.

The meeting expressed grave concern over the current situation in the city and said that the ANP was destroying peace in Karachi at the beckoning of their foreign masters with the active connivance of notorious terrorists of Layari gang war who were involved in extortion, killing and kidnapping for ransom.

The meeting said that the ANP had established more than one hundred torture cells in Karachi where political opponents and those who raised voice against its terrorism are subjected to inhuman torture. The terrorism done by the ANP during its strike call was before everyone to see.

The Co-ordination Committee said that the strike was called by the ANP on the pretext of load-shedding being done by Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) but the Clifton Grid Station was attacked by armed assailants as a result of which a large area plunged into darkness. Police and Rangers had to be called in to restore electricity. KESC staff responsible for rectifying faults was also being manhandled by miscreants of the ANP. Such wanton acts of sabotage and vandalism revealed their real motives behind the strike call. The motive behind the strike call was not to relieve the people of Karachi from the menace of load-shedding. The ANP wanted to please its foreign masters by acts of killings, mayhem and arson.

The Co-ordination Committee said that it seemed that the ANP was even more powerful than the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda. This was evident by the fact that the heavily armed ANP terrorists went on a rampage in the city killing people including police and rangers personnel, destroying properties and resorting to arson but the police, rangers and other law-enforcing agencies looked the other way.

The Co-ordination Committee noted with concern that no action was taken against the armed terrorists of the ANP and the entire city was allowed to suffer because of lack of timely action by the law-enforcing agencies.

The Co-ordination Committee asked the citizens of Karachi to see through the conspiracy and said that when the state and its organs failed to provide security to the people it became imperative to form “peace committees” to protect the life and property of our people. The Committee expressed heartfelt sympathies to the people who had to undergo an ordeal because of the terrorism of the ANP.

The Co-ordination Committee appealed to the citizens of Karachi that they should get united for the protection of the people in their areas putting aside the prejudices of language, religion, caste, colour and creed. The Committee asked them to be vigilant and expose the foreign nexus of the ANP through their vigilance and unity.

The Co-ordination Committee made a fervent appeal to Chief Minister Sindh, Governor Sindh, Corps Commander Karachi, Director General Rangers, Inspector General of Police Sindh and other law-enforcing agencies to discharge their duty to protect national security by taking fierce action against the terrorist activities of the ANP.

The Co-ordination Committee also appeal to the print and electronic media to defeat the conspiracy of the ANP to destroy peace in Karachi and soaking the city in a bloodbath.