LAHORE, Aug 29: The Labour Party Pakistan has criticised the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) for launching a propaganda campaign against the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) for presenting a report on May 12 incidents in Karachi.

Party Secretary-General Farooq Tariq said there was no justification for the MQM to initiate a whispering campaign against HRCP Chairperson Asma Jehangir because the commission was a non-political organization which continued investigating the incidents of individual and state terrorism and issue reports.

Asma Jehangir was a human rights activist and had nothing to do with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).

Mr Tariq said the MQM had been irritated over the HRCP report because it showed its involvement in the carnage.

He said workers of Labour Party and other organisations had expressed fears about violence when the government and the MQM decided to organise a rally in Karachi on May 12 on the arrival of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

He said that if the MQM had any videotape about May 12 incidents in Karachi it should make it public without editing.