KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan head Dr Farooq Sattar has asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah to provide proper security to his party’s temporary headquarters set up in his PIB Colony residence.

In an SOS letter sent to the PM and the CM on Tuesday evening, Dr Sattar also expressed dissatisfaction over the security provided to him and demanded a Rangers escort, in addition to the two police mobile vans he already had.

The request from Dr Sattar came after wall chalking by a hitherto unknown Badla (revenge) group emerged on Monday night in PIB Colony close to his residence.

In the letter, copies of which have also been sent to senior federal and provincial officials, including Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad, the Karachi corps commander and the Rangers director general, Dr Sattar said that there was no security arrangement at the party’s temporary headquarters, which was set up after law enforcement agencies sealed the MQM’s Nine-Zero headquarters and Khurshid Memorial Hall “without any intimation to the party leadership”.

He said that more than a year ago he had voluntarily removed the barriers set up for security on the directives of Rangers. “As a result of this removal, there is a fear that extremists or terrorists may easily create an untoward situation,” he added.

Dr Sattar requested the PM and the CM to realise the gravity and seriousness of the situation and order proper security “to prevent any untoward incident and take immediate steps to ensure protection and safety of the leaders of MQM”.

Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2016

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