Advocate Tariq Asad has requested the court to direct Interior Minister Rahman Malik to resign or ask the Prime Minister to oust him from the cabinet for his inability to deal with the worsening law and order situation in Karachi in a petition filed under article 184 (3) of the Constitution.
Last year, a total of 1,981 people were killed in the city, including 1,726 men, 177 women and 78 children. Among them were 763 political activists, the petitioner contended. Law enforcing agencies have failed to maintain order in the metropolis.
Political vendetta has claimed the lives of 78 members of MQM (Haqiqi), 51 activists of MQM, 63 of ANP, 27 of PPP, six of Jamat-e-Islami, 46 of Ahl-e-Sunnat Waljamat, five of Punjabi Pakhtun Ittehad, five of Sunni Tehreek and two of Jaish-e-Muhammad.
Over the last three months, the Sindh Police lost 17 members and the Pakistan Rangers, four. Of the 29 government employees who were gunned down, six were doctors. In the month of January over 75 people have been killed, the petitioner said.
Malik’s statement regarding instigation by a “third force” is either misleading or a reflection of his inability to control the law and order situation which violates the fundamental rights of the citizens of Karachi.
He should be summoned in the court and questioned about the “third force” responsible for target killings in Karachi.
Advocate Asad requested the court to direct Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza to advise the President of Pakistan to issue a proclamation of emergency in Karachi.
Asad has made the federal government respondent in his petition by naming Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, the secretary interior, the interior minister as well as the chief secretary and home minister of Sindh.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 22nd, 2011.
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