MQM blames ANP for target killings

Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Dr Farooq Sattar on Saturday categorically blamed the ANP for target killings.

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Dr Farooq Sattar on Saturday categorically blamed the Awami National  Party for the killing of a party worker on Friday night.

While addressing the media in a press conference, Sattar said:

ANP's armed men opened indiscriminate fire on MQM's office. As a result, several MQM workers were injured and one of them succumbed to the injuries. The attackers belong to the Awami National Party. This statement is being made with complete evidence.

He added:

They are at large in the city and targeting people is their routine practice.

Sattar said that “till the time of Bacha Khan, it was a political party. Now this party has been turned into a drug, land and armed mafia.”

He said:

Criminals of this party are rolling around in the city with weapons at will. They are grabbing lands and properties on gun point and blackmailing people for money.

Sattar demanded that “the government take strict action against the land mafia.”

“We have always made such statements with complete evidence,” Sattar said.

He added:

Whenever the government tries to operate against them, it faces heavy retaliation. We can go through the newspapers of the previous year and we can see that whenever such criminals are arrested, they have connections with Taliban and terrorist organizations.

He said “terror activities have been started in the city. We ask PPP to control ANP which is its ally in government.”

Towards the end the MQM representative warned:

Despite such a big setback, the Chief of MQM has instructed the party to tolerate such incidents. But if we are forced, our level of tolerance may also reach the threshold.