KARACHI: Funeral prayers led by Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat chief Allama Mohammad Ahmad Ludhianvi were held for Karachi ASWJ secretary general Dr Mohammad Fayyaz Khan in Orangi Town on Thursday noon.

Dr Fayyaz along with his driver Arif Junaid was gunned down in an attack on his car by armed motorcyclists at Paracha Chowk in Shershah on Wednesday evening. Later in the night party leaders and activists carried their coffins and staged a sit-in near Chief Minister House. The protest continued till late on Wednesday and ended after assurances from the government that they would hold talks with the protesters on Thursday to address their concerns.

On Thursday evening, a delegation of the ASWJ held talks with the home secretary of Sindh.

“We are satisfied with the outcome of the negotiations and we hope that our demands would be fulfilled,” said new Karachi ASWJ secretary general Allama Taj Mohammad Hanafi.

He said that their main demand pertained to provision of compensation to the families of the slain party workers in Karachi; recovery of ‘missing’ activists and arrest of the killers of their activists.

The party leader said that over the past few years a total of 300 workers of his party had been killed in the metropolis and out of whom 25 had been killed during the past three months.

Allama Hanafi added that around two dozen city party workers were ‘missing’.

Published in Dawn March 6th, 2015

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