Flle photo of Farooq Sattar. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
KARACHI: Terming the ongoing security operations in Karachi a sham, and alleging that they were politically motivated Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Senator Farooq Sattar said on Tuesday that an independent committee ought to be formed to monitor and oversee a supposedly criminal cleanup of the megalopolis, Express News reported.
Talking to the media, Sattar said that the proposed committee would respond to complaints or take notice of such things as unjustifiable arrests, misbehavior with women or any unconstitutional step taken in the name of a Karachi operation.
Asserting that the Karachi operation was "politically motivated" Sattar said, "MQM is being deliberately targeted and it is only with the passage of time that we will see if the operation was successful or not."
"The captain of the operation, Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, can't be present in all the raids," he said, adding if the CM knew about what difficulties normal citizens had to go through every time an area was subject to an operation.
The MQM leader asserted that the Karachi operation was a way to keep the party away from participating in politics.
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Due to effective enforcement and enforcement of action by rangers actual culprits are being arrested Farooq Sattar is crying. unnecessarily. In order to make operation more effective Governor Sind should be removed from his post immediately..
According a news report (The News, Oct.15) during a telephonic conversation, Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told MQM parliamentary leader in the National Assembly, Dr, Farooq Sattar that the committee to monitor targeted operation in Karachi would be constituted, adding that he would himself visit Karachi for the same purpose after Eid.
Strictly speaking if, as was stated while things were being worked out, the objective of the committee was to monitor the operation, it should have been formed at the same time as the operation commenced or, within a day or two at the most and not just be a subject of discussion weeks after the operation started, and even then only in vague terms, with no definite time-frame given. In this age of advanced technology, surely Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan does not have to be physically present in Karachi to get things moving, unless he is thinking of cutting a ribbon or something to herald the start of the committee.
And in the absence of a neutral monitoring committee, how can people claim authoritatively that the operation is going on in the right manner, which statements we often hear from officials? A letter titled 'Rangers' behaviour' published in Dawn (Oct.15) presents a disturbing picture.
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whose Mandate is Karachi is between PPP or MQM? Its MQM. Whose Government in PS is? Its PPP. Interior se seatain lkr marogay haha How much you hate MQM but you can't deny karachi operation is politically motivated.
For the first time in last decades some think positive is happening and now any one from Karachi will talk that's the sign that he is affective. Since they can't play dirty politics any more. MQM is good party but unfortunately it's armed and narrow mind wings stop them to become a reall national party.
ET, please remove the comments of Sufyan Ali Advocate as this is not relevant to the topic at all.
Probably he wrote it for some other topic but mistakenly posted here and what to say about moderators of ET, they also overlooked whether it is a relevant topic or not?
@Sufyan Ali Advocate: Your comment is sooo out of context that it should be considered spamming. ET mods, where art thou?
We know you will sabotage the efficacy of this operation by calling in your absconded target-killer peers from South Africa, Dubai or wherever else they are hiding.
so don't we have judges or courts there in karachi?? O wait! Even they aren't allowed to work freely because of some 'namalum' thugs! Hope et'll publish!
Justified demand!
The Rangers and Police are picking up those people who are involved in crimes but not to those who are innocent.
The arrested persons during the course of interrogations reveals the names of their accomplices and they are also matched with their cell phone calls and conversations as well as the text messages sent in code words to each other.
It is alleged that MQM is among the top political parties that are involved in heinous crimes so what an independent committee is going to do?
Even if an independent body is formed and the members of the independent committee are approached by MQM workers, either they have to get the workers released, or otherwise, the members of the independent committee will also be killed.
What Farooq Sattar will do then?