The Dawn
Internet Edition

1 Novmeber 1999

MQM seeks CE's help to end police excesses
By Our Reporter

KARACHI, Oct 31: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement's coordination committee has expressed surprise over the continuing raids on the residences of party activists despite the change of government in the country, and appealed to the Chief Executive (CE) to take serious notice of the police raids.

In a statement issued on Sunday, the coordination committee drew the CE's attention to the police raids on the residences of various activists of unit 112 in Baldia Town.

It said that when the police did not find an activist, named Yamin, his aged father, Mohammed Yasin, was allegedly beaten up by the police and later taken into custody.

The committee alleged that the police had not stopped extortion of money from innocent people.

Meanwhile, Haq Parast MPAs of the suspended Sindh Assembly have demanded investigation into the alleged plunder of Pakistan Boy Scouts accounts by the adviser of the deposed prime minister on Sindh affairs. They demanded that he be given exemplary punishment.