KARACHI, May 13: The Pakistan People’s Party leader and Leader of Opposition in Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmad Khuhro, has said that threats of serious consequences were given to the judiciary and sensitive institutions by echoing slogans of “Pakistan not acceptable without Gen Pervez Musharraf” in the federal capital and its practical demonstration in Karachi.
Mr Khuhro, who was speaking to a group of Sindh MPAs and party workers at his residence on Sunday, said Gen Musharraf had jolted the foundation of the country by playing horrible game of using religious and ethnic extremists against judiciary and other institutions. He said every patriot was grieved over the tactics applied to stop the chief justice from entering into the city of Quaid-i-Azam.
He said on May 12 night when the youths and elders, who were victim of terrorism and were tossing from pain in different hospitals of Karachi Gen Pervez Musharraf and his supporters were celebrating victory at the beat of drums in Islamabad.
Mr Khuhro warned that whatever the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was sowing by taking the turn of “Musharraf Qaumi Movement” it would reap tomorrow.
He said the language used for the chief justice and the entire judiciary by the government ‘courtiers’ in Islamabad and Karachi was itself a challenge to the Supreme Court of Pakistan and its framed code of conduct. He said people were anxious to see that the Supreme Court should take suo motu notice against General Musharraf and MQM ministers.
Referring to the news appeared in the section of press, he said, why the police were unarmed on the instructions of provincial government a day before the arrival of chief justice while it was repeatedly warning the chief justice from visiting Karachi.
Earlier addressing a news conference at Bilawal House, PPP Sindh PPP Qaim Ali Shah, who is also ARD provincial convener, Deputy Leader of Oppositiion in Senate Raza Rabbani, Opposition leader in Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmad Khuhru, Central Information Secretary Sherry Rehman, condemned the what they called naked state terrorism, saying that whatever had happened was a sheer act of terrorism which was carried out by the state agencies and the MQM.
Pointing out that more than 25 people were killed in the violence, the senior PPP leaders squarely blamed the federal government and the provincial government and its coalition partner MQM for the bloodshed in the city of Karachi.
They said the MQM workers with assault rifles and guns opened fire in different parts of the city to stop opposition parties. They pointed out that containers and other road barriers were placed on Sharea Faisal and Muttahida activists from their hideouts targeted the opposition workers.
“We are still collecting reports about dead and injured as many of them still trapped or missing”, they said but they added data collected so far about the victims showed that more 25 people, including workers of PPP, PML-N and Awami National Party, had been killed. The terrorists even not spared a private television offices and journalists, they said and added that buses and dozens of other vehicles were torched. “It is an extremely serious situation,” Syed Qaim Shah said adding that he had not witnessed such naked fascism and terrorism during his political life.
“They had sealed off the entire city. It looks they want violence. There’s no authority to control MQM activists,” Nisar Khuhro said adding that he had never seen this sort of state terrorism.
Mr Khuhru demanded removal of provincial government saying that deployment of rangers was not solution to the problem. He made it clear that the PPP would not succumb to the pressures of terrorists and would continue its struggle for restoration of an independent judiciary and democracy.
