Rally attack case: MQM leader, others declared proclaimed offenders
At least 11 people were killed and 20 others injured in the attack in May, 2012
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KARACHI:
An anti-terrorism court declared on Tuesday a former leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Hammad Siddiqi, and other party workers proclaimed offenders in the Muhabbat-i-Sindh rally attack case.
The ATC-III declared MQM's former Karachi Tanzimi Committee incharge, Siddiqi, and others, including Mubashir Naqvi, Kamran alias Kalia, Manzoor, Rizwan and Nabil, as proclaimed offenders after the police submitted that the suspects had fled somewhere in a bid to escape the trial.
The court also ordered confiscation of all moveable and immoveable properties belonging to the absconding suspects with directions to the investigators to present them before the trial court whenever they are arrested.
At least 11 people, including a woman, were killed and 20 others injured when gunmen attacked the rally in the old city area of the city in May, 2012. The rally was jointly organised by Sindh's nationalist parties against the demand of a separate province and was led by Qaumi Awami Tehrik president Ayaz Latif Palijo, defunct Peoples Amn Committee chief Uzair Jan Baloch and their allies.
Ever since, the MQM's men were being blamed for the attack by the rally organisers. Their implication, however, came three years later when one of their comrades reportedly confessed to the crime.
A report earlier submitted to the court narrated that Amir Ali alias Sar Phatta, who was arrested during the March 11 paramilitary raid at the MQM headquarters, Nine Zero, revealed that he was involved in the deadly attack that was ordered by Siddiqi.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 16th, 2015.
An anti-terrorism court declared on Tuesday a former leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Hammad Siddiqi, and other party workers proclaimed offenders in the Muhabbat-i-Sindh rally attack case.
The ATC-III declared MQM's former Karachi Tanzimi Committee incharge, Siddiqi, and others, including Mubashir Naqvi, Kamran alias Kalia, Manzoor, Rizwan and Nabil, as proclaimed offenders after the police submitted that the suspects had fled somewhere in a bid to escape the trial.
The court also ordered confiscation of all moveable and immoveable properties belonging to the absconding suspects with directions to the investigators to present them before the trial court whenever they are arrested.
At least 11 people, including a woman, were killed and 20 others injured when gunmen attacked the rally in the old city area of the city in May, 2012. The rally was jointly organised by Sindh's nationalist parties against the demand of a separate province and was led by Qaumi Awami Tehrik president Ayaz Latif Palijo, defunct Peoples Amn Committee chief Uzair Jan Baloch and their allies.
Ever since, the MQM's men were being blamed for the attack by the rally organisers. Their implication, however, came three years later when one of their comrades reportedly confessed to the crime.
A report earlier submitted to the court narrated that Amir Ali alias Sar Phatta, who was arrested during the March 11 paramilitary raid at the MQM headquarters, Nine Zero, revealed that he was involved in the deadly attack that was ordered by Siddiqi.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 16th, 2015.