HYDERABAD, May 14: The Joint Action Committee Sindh, an alliance of 10 civil organisations, on Monday called for declaring the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) a ‘terrorist organisation’ and ousting it from the Sindh government to ensure peace in Karachi and other parts of the province.

The committee leaders told a news conference at Qasimabad that the Karachi witnessed `naked terrorism’ on May 12 when political parties in the opposition were stopped from receiving Chief Justice of Pakistan and the MQM was allowed to stage a rally, block roads and hold public meeting.

They charged that the entire city was handed over to the MQM whose activists unleashed terror and killed innocent people with complete impunity.

A private TV channel was also came under attack and life came to grinding halt with ‘terrorists’ given a licence to do whatever they liked in the city, they said.

They stressed that there was no doubt that the MQM was involved in violence as it enjoyed full support of the President House and the government.

They demanded that the government should arrest its activists and disarm all the militant groups to restore peace in the provincial capital and withdraw section 144.

They said that the expulsion orders served on lawyers of the CJP should be withdrawn.

Zain Daudpoto, coordinator of the committee, Zulfiqar Shah, provincial coordinator of South Asia Partnership, Ghaffar Malik of Sindh Development Society, Mustafa Baloch of the SPO, Fateh Mari of Actionaid Pakistan, Punhal Sario of Sindh National Congress, Noor Mohammad Bajeer of Civil Society Support Programme, Ms Sadia coordinator HRCP, Dr Khalil Qazi of the Indus Development Organisation and Wahab Pindrani of Democratic Commission for Human Development attended the press conference.

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