Demand for action: MQM leaders condemn targeted killings

MQM leaders urge government to take immediate action against elements involve in target killing.

KARACHI:

Leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), including its chief Altaf Hussain, have condemned the targeted killings of their activists and urged the government to take immediate action against elements involved in such incidents.

Members of the MQM’s Rabita Committee expressed concern over the killings of at least 10 workers over the past four days.

They said that targeted killings of MQM workers “is a planned conspiracy against MQM by terrorists, who were also maligning the party by baseless media propaganda”.

Criticising the government for inaction, MQM lawmakers said that several of their activists had been murdered in New Karachi and elsewhere in the Sindh metropolis.

MQM leaders expressed grief over the death of a party’s activist from New Karachi, Ayub Raja, who was killed in Liaquatabad.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 18^th,  2011.