Campus calling: Islamic university alleges cover-up for land grabbers of political parties
10 acres set aside for future projects have been taken over.
KARACHI:
The general secretary of Jamia Mustafa Madani Islamic University and the patron-in-chief of Darbar-e-Haqqani, Hajra Haqqani, has said that some people belonging to a political party have occupied land set aside for the university’s future projects.
“The police is openly supporting the land grabbers and are paying no heed to the orders and directives of the governor and the Sindh High Court,” she said at a press conference at the press club on Saturday. She was accompanied by Allama Qazi Ahmed Noorani, Qari Saleem Akhtar and other central leaders of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan.
They approached the governor on December 15 with original land documents and then Sindh IG Mushtaq Shah on the same day with a request for protection from the land grabbers. The next day, the Sindh High Court orderered that they should be provided security.
According to Haqqani, the SSP of Malir had arrested all the volunteers of Darbar-e-Haqqani on December 16 and registered fake FIRs against them at Quaidabad police station because of pressure from an influential builder. “They occupied 10 acres of our Darbar and we are not getting any help from the government,” she said. “If anything happens to us it will be the responsibility of Quaidabad SHO Nasir Mashwani, Malir SSP Rao Anwaar, the land grabbers and the government.”
She pointed fingers at members of the Awami National Party, the Pakistan Peoples Party and Shabab-e-Milli for allegedly supporting the land grabbers. “When we contacted the Sindh ANP chief about the involvement of his party members, he said that his party had already expelled them,” she added.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 19th, 2011.
The general secretary of Jamia Mustafa Madani Islamic University and the patron-in-chief of Darbar-e-Haqqani, Hajra Haqqani, has said that some people belonging to a political party have occupied land set aside for the university’s future projects.
“The police is openly supporting the land grabbers and are paying no heed to the orders and directives of the governor and the Sindh High Court,” she said at a press conference at the press club on Saturday. She was accompanied by Allama Qazi Ahmed Noorani, Qari Saleem Akhtar and other central leaders of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan.
They approached the governor on December 15 with original land documents and then Sindh IG Mushtaq Shah on the same day with a request for protection from the land grabbers. The next day, the Sindh High Court orderered that they should be provided security.
According to Haqqani, the SSP of Malir had arrested all the volunteers of Darbar-e-Haqqani on December 16 and registered fake FIRs against them at Quaidabad police station because of pressure from an influential builder. “They occupied 10 acres of our Darbar and we are not getting any help from the government,” she said. “If anything happens to us it will be the responsibility of Quaidabad SHO Nasir Mashwani, Malir SSP Rao Anwaar, the land grabbers and the government.”
She pointed fingers at members of the Awami National Party, the Pakistan Peoples Party and Shabab-e-Milli for allegedly supporting the land grabbers. “When we contacted the Sindh ANP chief about the involvement of his party members, he said that his party had already expelled them,” she added.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 19th, 2011.