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'Expose the target killers'

Sattar says eyewitness, media accounts have been gathered and the govt must arrest those behind target...

Express October 20, 2010

KARACHI: MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar has said that it is the government's number one priority to expose and arrest those who are conducting target killings in Karachi, particularly those who have already been identified.

Speaking to the media today (Wednesday), Sattar said eyewitness accounts have been gathered and many people who have been wounded in recent attacks have recognized their assailants, making it "very clear who has perpetrated these attacks".

The violence on October 16-17 against MQM workers has shown who has picked up weapons against whom.

He added that the ongoing wave of violence in Karachi has to be a well-planned conspiracy, given the way people have been executed. He appealed for calm and patience from both MQM party workers and the public.

Sattar's press conference comes as the death toll in the metropolis has crossed 30 in the last 24 hours.

COMMENTS (10)

Umar | 14 years ago | Reply @ali: haha....good points. Hats off to Pakistani media, specially Ex-Trib.

ali | 14 years ago | Reply I truly believe in what soever MQM says, since they are the SAINTS and nothing is happening in Gulistan Jauhar, Gulshan Iqbal, Malir, Shah Faisal Town, Buffer zone, aurangi town,and North Nazimabad. THERE MUST be OPERATION ONLY IN LIYARI and KATTI PAHADI................. (Peoples aman commity are burning all the hotels and business with Quetta/Khan/Peshawar written on its name. God Bless only Pakistan Media.

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Umair Mallick | 14 years ago | Reply Again Zardari government has shown extreme of incompetence. Leaving people at the mercy of criminals and gangsters. Police insensibly watching people dying. They are either uninterested or simply grossly incompetent and ruthlessly negligent of their duties. It is hard to believe they are paid for this job. Politicians are busy in political games. What is the point of building mosques in every corner when individuals and insitutions have no respect for basic human existence. Wearing long robes and growing beards are only symbols of of such a hypocrisy and deception that this society is becoming victim of. This society only deserves to be ruled by a government which will has no political agenda and which can impose severe heavy punishments for those who breach the law. Down with this government and these fake institutions.

Maulana Diesel | 14 years ago | Reply If there can be a cleanup operation in Swat then WHY NOT IN KARACHI!!!!!

Ben | 14 years ago | Reply Could we ask the courts to dispense justice the way a British court handed down life imprisonment to a Prince, so that no one dares to commit heinous crimes. Read more at: link text

Ashraf | 14 years ago | Reply Even a infant knows whos responsible for kabari bazaar incident, Rahman dakaits guys demanded extortion, and killed traders as they refused to give money thats it.

nooralam | 14 years ago | Reply RULE OF LAW KARACHI HARD A CROWD OF PEOPLE 43 KILLED AND DAID MR ZULLFFIQAR MIRZA INDENTIFECATION INCOMPLETE HOME MINISTER ZULFFIQAR MIRZA DR SAGHEER SAID POLITICAL REFORM RULE OF LAW RESPONSIBALE HOME MINISTER ALL MAFIA TO CILINAUP KARACHI ONLY SO LATION LAYARE GAG WAR NO MIRZA MIRZA KARACHI PEOPLE SAVE THE LIFE S.O.S

nooralam | 14 years ago | Reply Karachi pakistan 43 killed people karachi way ? law rule of law home minister of sindh karachi mirza public demand mirza resignation only only solve karachi karachi demand aks karachi zulffiqar mirza home minister only RESIGNATION ONkLY ONLY MIRZA KILLING DR MIRZA

Citizen Kane | 14 years ago | Reply I keep on seeing helicopters over DHA. apparantly they are flying over Lyari. I hope the operation happens soon. Lyari has become a menace. The place is the center of crime in the city with this Peoples Aman Committee involved in activities that have nothing to do with Aman (peace).

Syed A. Mateen | 14 years ago | Reply It is unfortunate that Karchi has become the target of bad elements for quite some time. The resposibility of the Police is to apprehend the goonda elements at the first instance and put them behind the bars. Now the local administration is thinking to impose curfew in the affected areas which should have imposed after the incident of first target killing. If the security agencies will become silent spectators and will keep on wait-and-see position, it is a natural that goonda elements will do more harm then they can anticipate. Killing one one person is equivalent to killing the whole humanity. The bad guys should be dealth with an iron hand so that peace should prevail in Karachi. How many times Universities will postpone eximinations? How many times people have to close their offices and shopping malls. Karachi need foreign investments for creating jobs for the unemployed youth. Unless peace is not restored in the city, no foreign investor will come to Karachi. Look at the Quaid's city. It is burning and people are killed openly and brutally by the goonda elements. By the way from where these gooda elements get the guns? Who issued them licenses to kill the innocent people who have nothing to do with the politics.

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