THE LEADER NEWSPAPER
WEDNSDAY, March 11, 1998

30 MQM WOKERS WERE KILLED ON BABARS’S ORDERS AND BURIED IN ISLAMABAD HILLS

Islamabad, Mar. 11, Interior Minister Choudhry Shujaat Hussain has disclosed that 30 MQM workers were killed in Islamabad on the orders of Naseerullah Babar who was interior minister in Benazir government.

The interior minister was reported to have made this disclosure at Senate Standing Committee meeting on Law & Order.

The Interior Minister informed the committee that these MQM activists were brought from Karachi to Islamabad and on the orders of the then interior minister Naseerullah Babar were murdered and buried at the Islamabad hillocks.

He said that murders of MQM workers came to light during the review of extrajudicial killings cases during Benazir govt. The Interior Minister said that children of workers murdered on the orders of Babar are still searching the graves of their fathers.

The report said Senator Qaim Ali Shah of PPP became angry on this statement of minister and asked why the interior minister did not present of report of police encounters in Karachi. On this Interior Minister said if the list of these encounters was presented then mention would also be made of these 30 murders. The minister said that he could not commit a sin like this. He said that he could not order the killing f any innocent citizen.