The party has requested traders and shopkeepers to shutter down their businesses on Sunday. They have further urged transporters to suspend their services for the day as well. STOCK IMAGE
MQM Rabita Committee in a press conference on Saturday said that the party will protest in Punjab, Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
The party has requested traders and shopkeepers to shutter down their businesses on Sunday. They have further urged transporters to suspend their services for the day as well.
MQM Chief Altaf Hussain also endorsed the committee’s call. He said that under the garb of operation, members of MQM were being subjected to state excesses.
Hussain said that instead of presenting arrested MQM workers in courts to be tried for their crimes, they 'disappeared' from custody and tortured before being killed extra-judicially.
He urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Army Chief General Raheel Sharif to take notice of these murders.
Later on Saturday night, MQM workers started gathering outside the Chief Minister House in Karachi to stage a protest.
Protesting outside CM house Karachi seeking #JusticeForFaraz pic.twitter.com/jiBxZ3pyLY
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Speaking to Express News outside the CM House, MQM leader Haider Abbas Rizvi said that they want the Chief Justice of Pakistan to launch a probe into the custodial killings of their workers.
Earlier on Saturday, after news broke of Alam's death, stores in some localities were closed.
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They killed innocent people including two innocent and experienced doctors just to enforce their strike through voilent strong arm tactics.
Accoding to media reports, petrol pumps and markets are being shut down from now onwards.