DESPITE
ASSURANCES OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE GENERAL MUSHARRAF, MQM BEING VICTIMISED
UNABATED
The
Chief Executive General Parvez Musharraf had categorically said that the
Balochis, Sindhis and the MQM would not have any complaints from Federal
Government any more in a speech during his recent visit to Abu Dhabi.
The
Mohajir nation, in its aftermath, had breathed a sigh of relief that the State
persecution would now cease. However, that sigh of relief now emanates as an
oasis in a desert. The raids, arrests, torture of Mohajirs in general and the
MQM workers in particular continue unabated. The details are as follows:
During
the night and the early hours of 30th and 31st October
1999, the personnel of Baldia Town Police Station of Karachi headed by
Nasrullah Jadoon raided an area of Baldia Town, Karachi. The raid was launched
by a large contingent of police in their vehicles and armoured personnel
carriers (APCs). The fully armed police personnel besieged the entire area
during the house-to-house search.
The
houses (B-373, B-374, B-375, B-376 and B-377) of the MQM workers were brutally
searched and the members most ruthlessly dealt with. That included merciless beating, intimidation, forcible
extortion and inhuman behaviour even with women; besides other houses. The
houses were plundered, in particular, the house of Mohammad Yameen.
In
the absence of one MQM worker, Mohammad Yameen, his father Mohammad Yasin
brutally tortured included banging of his head against the wall resulting in
multiple fractures. He was unlawfully arrested and taken into the State
custody.
Similarly,
in the early hours of 30 October 1999, the personnel of Orangi Ext. Police
Station, led by SHO Mumtaz Awan (notorious for extra-judicially murdering
several MQM workers and supporters) raided the residence of Hasrat, a worker of
MQM Unit 119, Sector Orangi Town, Karachi, and arrested him. In another raid, the same party arrested
Abdul Sattar, an MQM worker of Unit 119, Sector Orangi Town, from his
residence.
Moreover, on 27 October 1999, Irshad son of Abdul Sattar, a worker of MQM Unit 79, Sector Korangi was unlawfully arrested from the premises of the City Court in Karachi by Sub Inspector Amin Khokhar. At present, he is being detained and tortured at the City Court Police Station.