MQM’S WORLDWIDE PROTEST

 

MUTTAHIDA QUAMI MOVEMENT (MQM) BEGINS ITS WORLDWIDE PROTEST CAMPAIGN TO PROTEST AGAINST THE CONTINUED INJUSTICES, ATROCITIES AND THE DENIAL OF THEIR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS BY THE SUCCESSIVE GOVERNMENTS OF PAKISTAN INCLUDING THE PRESENT MILITARY GOVERNMENT

 

 

11 June 2000
New York

 

In the sixth phase of the MQM’s Worldwide Protest Campaign, the MQM Overseas USA and Canada organised a huge protest rally in front of the residence of Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York.  The participants of the rally chanted slogans against the atrocities committed upon the MQM leaders, workers and supporters by the successive governments of Pakistan including the present Military Government.  Participants of the rally comprised of a large number of American Pakistani Mohajirs, women, elders, children the youth.  A petition was submitted for the attention of Mr Kofi Annan.  Apart from the demonstration, flyers detailing the atrocities upon the Mohajir Nation and the MQM in particular were distributed.  At the end a rally was taken out which after passing through several streets of New York ended at the Office of the MQM New York Unit.