Unsafe And unhappy: Govt must act immediately, say Kutchi leaders

KARACHI:

Former Pakistan ambassador to the United Nations and patron-in-chief of the Kutchi communities, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, warned the Sindh government to get a hold of the law and order situation immediately - especially in Lyari and Malir -otherwise people would start a string of protests and sit-ins.  

Haroon, accompanied by Jeay Sindh Mahaz Chairperson Riaz Chandio and Kutchi Rabita Committee’s leader Akhtar Kutchi, was addressing an urgent press conference on Tuesday. Haroon said that the government was compelling the Kutchis to hold sit-ins, strikes and protests.

“We are alive but could become victims of gunshots or rocket attacks any moment,” said a resident of Al-Falah Road, who was among the hundreds of people who came back to Lyari on August 25 after two months. “The people in Lyari are being killed on ethnic or political basis and no one from the government or the law enforcement agencies ready is to take this matter seriously.”

Kutchi Rabita Committee’s leader Hussain Kutchi pointed out that the displaced people only returned on assurance of safety by the Karachi Commissioner Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui but nothing had changed since the time they had left.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 28^th, 2013.