SINDH POLICE JOINS PAKISTAN MUSLIM LEAGUE (NAWAZ GROUP)

7 August 1999

The members of the MQM Zonal and Organising Committees severely condemned the S S P (Senior Superintendent Police) Hyderabad, Zafar Iqbal Siddiqui and said that it seems that the Sindh Police has joined the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Group). The members reacted on the undemocratic and extra-Constitutional statement made by the SSP in his press conference during which he offered amnesty to the MQM workers who would approach and join the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Group).

They said that seemingly the SSP has assumed the post of Press and Information Secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League. They said that instead of being loyal to the country and rendering his services to the people in accordance to the Constitution of the country, the SSP is swearing allegiance to the Prime Minister’s political party, the Pakistan Muslim League. The members emphasised that this tantamount to the desecration of the Constitution and reflective of the totalitarian and parochial thinking of the Prime Minister, who has zero tolerance for dissent and criticism.

The members of the Committees said that the MQM office bearers, workers and people of Hyderabad are aware of the nefarious designs of the Prime Minister of implanting his party, the Pakistan Muslim League through the use of Police, employing strong arm tactics and extra constitutionally and undemocratically. They said that the people of Hyderabad are infuriated on these tactics and warned the Prime Minister that his heinous designs would be frustrated by the people as he experienced during the "Army Operation" in 1992, the on-going State terrorism and the "near-genocide" of Mohajirs.

The members of the Zonal and Organising Committees requested the President of Pakistan, Chief of the Army Staff and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to take notice of the illegal and undemocratic employment of the State apparatuses including Police by the Prime Minister to politically victimise his political oppositions, particularly, the MQM. They also asked them to ask the Prime Minister to stop conquering the people of Sindh and the province.