Lawyer Salahuddin Khan Gandapur has filed a petition challenging the Lyari operation, arguing that it violated human rights.
On Friday, Justice Faisal Arab and Justice Nadeem Akhtar heard the petition in which Gandapur maintained that while the operation’s objective was to flush out alleged militants and gangsters involved in extortion, no headway had been made in over a week. Children, the elderly and women had suffered instead. People could not buy groceries or visit the hospital. The police had restricted movement.
The court issued notices to the federal and provincial governments, inspector general of police, DIG Karachi, SSP Chaudhry Aslam and others for May 8. Also summoned were the advocate general of Sindh, deputy attorney general.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 5th, 2012.
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@Rizwan: Fully agree with what you have said. When a nation becomes mired with provincialism, and ethnic, and linguistic affiliations, without regard to national spirit and priorities, it does not take long to be destroyed.
How blind ethnicity is. The gangsters are firing rockets at police without considering the death of civilians. While the police is responsible to capture them without hurting civilians. They have challenged the writ of government in the middle of a metropolitan city.
I ask that what makes them different from the terrorists like TTP. They are doing the same thing, using illegal weapons and challenging the writ of government. The immediate suspension in the incidents of kidnappings shows that the Lyari gangs were mainly responsible for such incidents.
and these shameless people dare to speak for them just because they belong to the same ethic group.