KARACHI: An eight-foot-long replica of a TT pistol was set on fire by Pasban-e-Pakistan general secretary and candidate for NA-246 by-polls Usman Moazzam as a symbolic eradication of violence from the metropolis. “The days of politics on the trigger of a TT pistol are now over in Karachi,” he said during a ceremony at the party’s main election camp in Karimabad on Tuesday. “Let the fate of the city be decided by ballots, not bullets.” Terming the by-elections as crucial in deciding the future of politics in Karachi, he warned that the residents will react if there was rigging in the constituency. He added that the days of extortionists and target killers were numbered and a radical change in the city’s politics was inevitable.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 15th, 2015.
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