The murder of an activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQMP) in Tando Allahyar district seems to be taking a violent and a political turn.
As the leaders and workers of MQM-P blamed the police for raiding homes of the party's workers and assaulting the protesting women, the police blamed the workers without naming their party for torching an office of the 15 emergency police.
Khalilur Rehman Khanzada Bholu, a suspect in the November 2020 murder case of Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party vice chairman Altaf Jiskani, was shot dead on a road outside the district and sessions court Tando Allahyar on Friday.
Police arrested his suspected killer Asad Jikani, brother of slain Altaf, in injured condition and allegedly recovered the weapon used in Bholu's killing. The MQM-P organised protests in Hyderabad and Tando Allahyar on Saturday, blaming the government and the police for raiding the houses of their workers and arresting many of them instead of rounding up Bholu's killer.
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In a video the policemen headed by DSP Aslam Langha, who earned notoriety for staging police encounters during his posting in Hyderabad, can be seen pushing back the women with wooden sticks from the road. Langha and some other cops were also seen in plainclothes.
Meanwhile, the STPP's Chairman Dr Qadir Magsi claimed at a press conference that Asad himself was critically injured with a gunshot to his neck and the police have not yet come clear as to who fired that shot.
"Why the FIR of armed attack on Asad is not being lodged? The police should either claim that they had shot Asad or register FIR on the persons with Bholu who shot him. Police should stop protecting the attackers." According to Magsi, Asad is still in a critical condition in Liaquat University Hospital. Magsi said his party's vice chairman Altaf was killed in November, 2020, by Bholu and others but his party's workers did not take the law into their hands.
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