MQM-P condemns worker’s arrest

Accuses police of summoning, harassing its members at behest of Sindh govt

KARACHI:

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) staunchly protested on Saturday the arrest of its Malir Town organiser Fahim Ajmer and criticised the authorities for "harassing its members and continuing to summon them to police stations for no reason."

Lashing out at the Sindh government, an MQM-P spokesperson accused the provincial government of "wanting to convert the province's urban areas, especially Karachi, into a police state." He further claimed that the Pakistan Peoples Party, the ruling party in Sindh, intended to use the police for political purposes, deeming it a "clear deviation from the law."

"The MQM-P not just condemns the Sindh government's cheap tactics, but is also ready to respond to it on every forum," the spokesperson said.

According to him, many of the party's members, even including women and children, were being "summoned and harassed" at police stations in Defence Housing Authority, Clifton, Malir, Shah Faisal Colony and Nazimabad, among other areas, "for no reason."

He appealed to the Sindh police chief, interior affairs minister and Sindh High Court chief justice to restrain the Sindh government from "using the police for political purposes," so that the MQM-P could carry out its political activities freely.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 9^th, 2020.