Levelling allegations: MWM to protest against arrest of ‘innocent’ men
Law enforcers say the detained men were involved in sectarian attacks.
MWM has demanded the government to dismiss DIG Odho from his post for “wrongfully implicating” four innocent people. PHOTO: MUHAMMAD SAQIB/FILE
KARACHI:
Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) has warned that it will hold countrywide protests against the arrest of men who have been “falsely implicated” in cases of sectarian attacks.
District West police claim to have arrested four men allegedly involved in more than 31 cases of sectarian killings. The suspects were identified as Naeem, Azhar Hussain, Raees Jaffery and Mohammad Hussain. During a press conference on Friday, DIG Javed Odho said that the accused belong to a banned religious outfit and had regularly targeted members of another sect in North Nazimabad, Rizvia, Ali Basti and Gulbahar.
But MWM has demanded the government to dismiss DIG Odho from his post for “wrongfully implicating” four innocent people. Speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, MWM member Asghar Abbasi Zaidi warned that the group would hold countrywide protest if the police did not release the “innocent men”. Officials from MWM’s Karachi chapter, including Maulana Mohammad Hussain Karimi, Maulana Ali Anwar Jafri and Mohammad Hussain Jafari, were also present at the event.
Asghar Zaidi alleged that the Rangers personnel illegally detained 19 young men they had captured during a raid in the early hours of February 25.
He claimed that the men were picked up from their houses in Gulbahar’s Jafaria Colony even though law enforcers did not have warrants for their arrest.
He said that the police had released all but for four men, who were falsely presented as target killers at DIG Odho’s press conference.
He said he believed the arrested men would be acquitted soon, but was upset that the “police have made a habit of defaming law-abiding citizens”.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 2nd, 2013.
Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) has warned that it will hold countrywide protests against the arrest of men who have been “falsely implicated” in cases of sectarian attacks.
District West police claim to have arrested four men allegedly involved in more than 31 cases of sectarian killings. The suspects were identified as Naeem, Azhar Hussain, Raees Jaffery and Mohammad Hussain. During a press conference on Friday, DIG Javed Odho said that the accused belong to a banned religious outfit and had regularly targeted members of another sect in North Nazimabad, Rizvia, Ali Basti and Gulbahar.
But MWM has demanded the government to dismiss DIG Odho from his post for “wrongfully implicating” four innocent people. Speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, MWM member Asghar Abbasi Zaidi warned that the group would hold countrywide protest if the police did not release the “innocent men”. Officials from MWM’s Karachi chapter, including Maulana Mohammad Hussain Karimi, Maulana Ali Anwar Jafri and Mohammad Hussain Jafari, were also present at the event.
Asghar Zaidi alleged that the Rangers personnel illegally detained 19 young men they had captured during a raid in the early hours of February 25.
He claimed that the men were picked up from their houses in Gulbahar’s Jafaria Colony even though law enforcers did not have warrants for their arrest.
He said that the police had released all but for four men, who were falsely presented as target killers at DIG Odho’s press conference.
He said he believed the arrested men would be acquitted soon, but was upset that the “police have made a habit of defaming law-abiding citizens”.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 2nd, 2013.