KARACHI, May 1: The Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba on Sunday accused activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and its student wing, the All Pakistan Muttahida Students Organisation, of killing 16 of its activists in terrorist activities in the city during the last 18 years.

While issuing a list of IJT activists who were killed during the period from 1988 to 2006 in Karachi, a spokesman of the IJT alleged that racism of the MQM and the APMSO had claimed lives of several innocent students in educational institutions.

“Besides Jamiat activists, several neutral students and workers of other student organisations were also tortured and killed. This barbarism in educational institutions still continues today,” the spokesman said.

According to the list issued by the IJT, activists it alleges were killed by workers of the rival group during this period included Aamir Saeed (August 30, 1988), Nazir Hussein (September 21, 1989), Shakiluddin Siraj (September 4, 1990), Aamir Abbas and Saad Bin Salah (February 23, 1991), Faisal Bin Najam and Azmatullah Sharif (February 24, 1991), Nomanuddin Siddiqui and Aleemuddin Qureshi (April 1, 1991), Ehsan Ansari (August 5, 1991), Shafqat Hussein (February 14, 1993), Umair Ahmed Khan (July 29, 1995), Saad Bin Zia and Ghayyur Anwar (August 17, 1995), Hafiz Abdul Rehman (May 12, 2004), Farhan Asif (April 19, 2005) and Syed Akmal Shirazi (April 20, 2006).—PPI