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ATC sentences five MQM workers to 25 years in prison

Convicts were charged in 2010 for damaging public property, assaulting policemen and attempting to murder

Zubair Ashraf April 21, 2015

PHOTO: AFP

KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court in Karachi sentenced five Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) workers to 25 years in prison on Tuesday.

Judge Anand Ram D Sairani of ATC IV while hearing the case gave the convicts collective 25 years each in the cases.

The convicts have been identified as Muhammad Irfan, Shahabuddhin, Shehzad, Farhan alias DSP and Faisal Naseer.

The jail trial of the convicts was ongoing as they were sentenced in 2010 along with 31 absconders on charges for damaging public property, assaulting policemen and attempting to murder.

Their case was filed within limits of Shah Faisal Colony.

COMMENTS (18)

Napier Mole | 9 years ago | Reply @ JAK I am a full supporter of justice done across the board. If there are criminal elements in mqm, of course, they should be brought to task. The issues occur when only a single party or group of people are targeted and when law enforcement agencies earn the perception of taking sides and becoming a political party. It is this perception which then creates a siege mentality for a party or for a city. Rangers could have continued to just target the criminal elements in all parties and should have just ensured the security of the elections. Unforunately, by raising demands for biometric identification and issuing draconian orders like the compulsory carrying of ID cards and then giving public statements against mqm, they have blown the good work they had done by clearing Karachi, to some extent at least, of criminal and terror elements. The comments section of the blogs are also testament to the overdrive of the rangers media cell. It is high time that such ham handedness is brought under control by saner elements in the army.

mohammad | 9 years ago | Reply @ truekarachite Are you for real, how many party workers have burned 258 workers alive in a factory, the kesc md killed, 12th May historic day for mqm and their wrong doings. Wake up save Karachi, this is our country and we all should collectively peotect it, please join hands and for once get rid of extortionists,target killers etc.

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jak | 9 years ago | Reply @Napier Mole: MQM supporters would remain in denial phase.They must accept that there are crimnals with in their party who are involved in target killings,land grabbing and other herenious crimes. Even if we accept that establisment is against MQM,than why in UK Scotland yard is searching MQM headquarter and interroragationg Altaf Hussain on murder and money launding charges .The killer of TV channel reporter Wali Baber was caught hiding in 90 is a proof that this party hides crimnals.Every one who lives in Karachi knows how Fitra is collected and how animal hides are snatched here by MQM workers on gun point.Time has come to do clean politics in Pakistan.There should be no room for crimnals to hide with in a political party.

Asad | 9 years ago | Reply Wow, right before the elections, huh? Keep the anti-MQM and anti-Mahajir propaganda going, you will see what we have in store after we clean sweep NA-246, the real fun will begin. I hope all Pakistanis are ready.

Shahzad | 9 years ago | Reply They recognize Mohajirs when they need the vote, but when they realize that MQM will annhilate them regardless of their fake Mohajir identity claims, then they say, "what is Mohajir, why this nonsense....." MQM is our party, Mohajir is our ethnicity, Altaf is our leader. Jeeya Mohajir, Jeeya Altaf, Jeeya Mohajirstan.

Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply @True Karachiite: Please get over Mohajir syndrome. It's too old and you just play victim by playing this card. Keep defending MQM until it come back to bite you like mostafa kamal.

Ali Rizvi | 9 years ago | Reply I am a Mohajir and often I wish if I weren't one. I wish my grandparents wouldn't have migrated to see this day. MQM is the only party that has given us a voice. Altaf is our voice. No matter what you do to us, no matter how many workers of our representative political party you persecute and kill, we will still be with Altaf and MQM.

Karachiwala | 9 years ago | Reply @asad S @raider Yes PTI people who attacked PTV and pesco did not kill anyone.... and yet the irony is that you FAIL to read that they were sentence for damaging PUBLIC PROPERTY!!!!!!!! can you read plain english? OR your bias blind eyes cannot? PTI worker (son's of soil) attack state building, and they roam scratch free. MQM worker handed down 25 years in prison- for damaging public property. If this case involved killing, then the case would carry Pakistan penal code 302 (murder) charges. It is evident that justice in Pakistan does discrimination, and the courts are bias! The so called educated people are so much brainwashed to their head that they can not even judge what is right and wrong.

Nida | 9 years ago | Reply @Noman: You betchya

raider | 9 years ago | Reply @True Karachiite: yes difference is that they don't kill and burn peoples

Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply Such decision will make Pakistan weaker

Napier Mole | 9 years ago | Reply Do the stated offences carry such strong punishments. The attacks by PTI and PAT goons on the parliament and PTV were certainly much more serious. Mqm just got a fillip - and justifiably so. Across the whole landscape of Pakistan, there is only a single party which is being targeted so single mindedly. No wonder Karachiites remain committed to their party.

Muhajir | 9 years ago | Reply Operation is being carried out against everyone. So far more than 30,000 people from all over Pakistan have been arrested in raid operations since 2013. Please stop the Muhajir rant my fellow Karachiites. I believe this is the right way to go. If something good is happening, let it happen.

ufaquarian | 9 years ago | Reply @True Krachiite - Please stop playing this card !

True Karachiite | 9 years ago | Reply @Asad S: Mahajir is just a term to name the group of millions of people who migrated to this Pakistan. If you have a problem with the name, I dont care. I cannot become a Sindhi by living in Sindh province. As on the PTI people, you are a typical arrogant PTI follower, and you won't understand others. So no point in highlighting stains on your clothes.

Asad S | 9 years ago | Reply @true karachiite PTI workers didn't kill anyone neither did they threatened to. Big difference. And cut the muhajir rant. There is no muhajir in Pakistan anymore. Wakeup this is the 21st century.

Noman | 9 years ago | Reply Will they receive a similar facilities as 'Saulat mirza' in Jail?

True Karachiite | 9 years ago | Reply Oh Mann.... draconian laws in Karachi. If its promulgated across Pakistan, it makes sense. When you pick and choose one specific group, it does far more harm than the assumed good. PTI workers can also be given similar sentence for attacking PTV during dharna and now attacking PESCO office. But they wont be, because blood of a mahajir comes cheaper (hard fact)!!!

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