MQM protests in Hyd against extrajudicial killing of workers

Protesters demand the chief justice take notice of the extrajudicial killing of MQM workers.

HYDERABAD:

Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) supporters organised on Saturday a protest outside the Sindh High Court and demanded an end to the alleged killings and ‘enforced disappearance’ of the party’s workers in Karachi.

Muhammad Sharif, who heads MQM’s Hyderabad division, said, “This protest is against the state’s agencies which are involved in the killing and kidnapping of the children of Pakistan’s founders.”

The protesters demanded the chief justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, to take notice of the extrajudicial killing and disappearance of MQM workers.

Sharif said three of the 12 kidnapped workers of MQM were released after Friday’s protest in Karachi. “We want the rest of our colleagues to be returned to their families as well,” he said. The party’s newly elected legislators and workers from the All Pakistan Muttahida Students Organization as well as the party’s women’s wing also took part in the protest.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 2^nd, 2013.