MQM-P announces protest over activist’s murder

Our mothers and sisters protesting against Bholu's murder were beaten with sticks, says Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui

KARACHI:

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Pakistan has announced to launch a movement against the assassination of Khalilur Rehman Bholu from Wednesday.

Addressing the general workers meeting of the party in the park adjacent to the party's Bahadurabad office, MQM-P Convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said that the experience of last 50 years which we have drawn from the attitudes of the Sindh rulers is that we can no longer live with those who divided Sindh on the basis of ethnicity and administration.

"Our mothers and sisters protesting against Bholu's murder in Tando Allahyar were beaten with sticks," he said. "We have to come out to stop these sticks," he added. The MQM convener said, "Mr. Chief Justice Tando Allahyar's problem is far bigger than the Nasla Tower where not only Khalil-urRehman was murdered but also justice was killed in the court."

"If the courts do not do justice in the murder case of Khalil-ur-Rehman, then the decision will be made by the people," the MQM-P leader said. He asked the workers to be ready for the last and final struggle. "The movement will start on Wednesday," he said.

Meanwhile, addressing the meeting, deputy convener Waseem Akhtar said, "One of our comrades was martyred in Tando Allahyar recently who was serving his sentence with respect to the courts. He was shot dead in the court premises and then the killers took selfies to celebrate the murder."

"The killers had the backing of the police and other agencies and the PPP's partisan government, and when mothers, sisters and brothers protested there, they too were brutally tortured," Akhtar said. "MQM Pakistan has increased pressure against the black local government law. We also have support of people from different walks of life, traders and industrialists so the PPP is conspiring for ethnic riots in the province through terrorists," the MQM deputy convener added.

"We have endured a lot and now the protest will continue against the feudal gang and the nationalists who are chanting the slogan "Pakistan Na Khappay" and burning the flag of Pakistan and the next stage of the protest will be on Wednesday at the Karachi Press Club," Akthar said.

The MQM leader said the protest was against the bigoted and corrupt PPP government. He said that SP of Tando Allahyar should be suspended. "The IGP is the representative of the federation and I also demand the federal government to take notice," he said.