MQM claim party worker arrested, demand immediate release
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KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) Rabita Committee on Saturday condemned the arrest of party worker, Rafiq Rajput, who was allegedly 'picked up by Rangers personnel during a raid at his residence'. The MQM has demanded his immediate release.
In an email statement, the party said that Rangers and other law enforcement agencies, including personnel in plain clothes, raided the residence of the party's Mehmoodabad Sector In-charge, Rafiq Rajput, and arrested the MQM post bearer.
Rajput was shifted to an undisclosed location after his arrest, the statement added.
The Rabita Committee statement further said that several MQM workers and post-bearers had been killed in Karachi but instead of arresting the killers, the party's activists and office-bearers were being prosecuted.
The statement alleged that party activists were being subjected to "inhumane torture" during their detention to obtain coerced statements that implicated the party in false cases.
MQM appealed to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Sindh Governor Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah for the immediate release of Rafiq Rajput and an end to what it termed the 'arrest of innocent party workers and activists'.
The development comes more than a week after the MQM had observed a day of mourning and a peaceful strike to protest the alleged 'extrajudicial killing' of one of it workers in Karachi by law enforcement agencies.
Also read: Missing MQM worker found dead, parts of Karachi shut down
The party is also under immense pressure and scrutiny after a Rangers report, submitted in the Sindh High Court on February 6, claimed that the MQM was behind the deadly fire that claimed the lives of at least 258 factory workers in Karachi's Baldia area in 2012.
Also read: Rangers’ report blames MQM for Baldia factory fire
The party's coordination committee on February 7 disowned Rizwan Qureshi, the alleged worker who set a Baldia Town factory on fire, and demanded that the government should hang the person in accordance with the law and Constitution.
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Feb 08, 2015 12:22pm
MQM mafia should stop its criminal activities ASAP!.
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Feb 08, 2015 12:35pm
The state has allowed these parties too much leeway under the garb of political compulsion.
Justice has to take its course. All culprits be it of any party affiliation need to face the music. There can be no exceptions. The army cannot fail where politicians have.
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Feb 08, 2015 12:36pm
Criminals should be behind bars not to rule nation enough is enough.
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Feb 08, 2015 12:43pm
For the MQM to put all their eggs 7 years ago, into the PPP-Z basket was a mistake.........and they still have not realized this.
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Feb 08, 2015 12:44pm
Freedom is the only solution
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Feb 08, 2015 12:45pm
With this kind of sick and perverted logic to release this MQM terrorists, We might well release UzairBaluch and all terrorist of Aman committee. Rangers are arresting all terrorists across the board, from TTP to MQM and no pressure or coercion should be afforded to release these terrorists. PERIOD.
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Feb 08, 2015 12:51pm
Another example of government brutality against MQM. Same things are happening as in the 90s. Both PPP and PML-N both parties have an agenda to eliminate MQM but again performance speaks for it self. MQM won the hearts of masses by serving the people.
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Feb 08, 2015 12:53pm
MQM is a history now. Rehman Malik has exposed them all.
They have lost the trust. Baldia incident is the last nail in coffin.
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Feb 08, 2015 12:57pm
MQM came to power in the name of Mahajirs. They been taking our money, snatching our cellphones, bullying us for skins on EID and Now we see they burn Mahajirs for money.
WE AS MAHAJIRS REJECT MQM AS OUR POLITICAL REPRESENTATION.
If there is any other legitimate political party who can represent our rights step forward.
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Feb 08, 2015 12:57pm
Don't bother innocents; and don't leave even a single culprit.
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Feb 08, 2015 12:58pm
@Khan-Haqiqi You wrote, "Freedom is the only solution". I fail to understand your statement-will you explain it?
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Feb 08, 2015 01:08pm
@asgher Try PTI as a change, let see them as well.
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Feb 08, 2015 01:08pm
Just don't play the innocent games. I don't think Altaf is an angel and his followers the saints. So who do it all, if you are not involved??
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Feb 08, 2015 01:09pm
@khan haqiqi hahaha try then that is if u can gain independence from Pakistan. This is not Bengal where the seperatists had public and Indian support. Most of Karachites are now fed up with ur muhajir card politics. U guys have been in countless gov but no improvement in life of people of karachi. MQM is a pest.
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Feb 08, 2015 01:09pm
Simply people should not vote for MQM, that way they will not have any black mailing power.
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Feb 08, 2015 01:10pm
@asgher.. i guess for Karachi PTI seems ti be the lesser evil. Choose PTI the next time
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Feb 08, 2015 01:11pm
@Muhammahoaibd S MQM should learn from Bengalis and Balochis they went through the same persecution and terror by federal Govt. and Punjabi establishment instead of dying everyday they should fight for their rights. Altaf Hussain is a fool who thinks Muhajirs can get their rights in Pakistan
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Feb 08, 2015 01:13pm
Freedom from MQM
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Feb 08, 2015 01:15pm
Sitting in London talking rubbish
Every time threats to resign and sit back and enjoy the misery of people
one world from him and whole Karachi is shut
Who started Bhatta Khori in Karachi?. I know a few who were made to pay or got killed.
Karachi was a lovely city until this barbarity. Karachi factory fire and death of innocents for not paying BHATTA.
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Feb 08, 2015 01:15pm
Why a sector incharge can not be arrested?
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Feb 08, 2015 01:22pm
@Khan-Haqiqi Freedon from Mafia Thug indeed!
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Feb 08, 2015 01:23pm
@Rakesh from Agra How is all of this any of your business?Didn't anyone ever tell you to go MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS
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Feb 08, 2015 01:23pm
@Muhammahoaibd S What he is trying to say is that freedom from the mafia thug residing in London!
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Feb 08, 2015 01:24pm
Altaf Hussain should be declared a terrorist
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Feb 08, 2015 01:24pm
@Gul Sector in-charges are the source of all criminal activities.
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Feb 08, 2015 01:26pm
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) Rabita Committee on Saturday condemned the arrest of party worker, Rafiq Rajput, who was allegedly 'picked up by Rangers personnel during a raid at his residence'. MQM most criminal group ever exist in Karachi just observer their faces , Rangers personnel should clean all this criminal faces as soon as possible don't let agent runaway , MQM make slave all the people of Karachi just to get benefit(bhatta khoor) from them by black mailing the provincial government as well the government of Pakistan
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Feb 08, 2015 01:26pm
Innocent...........MQM...........does not sound practical..........Karachi........carnage.........
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Feb 08, 2015 02:03pm
Terrorists are terrorist and should be punished....doesn't matter where they come from.
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Feb 08, 2015 02:03pm
Everyone in Karachi, knows that those sitting in Rabita committee are hand picked dummies of Mr.Hussain, their real job is to protect MQM's Sector and Units and give them a Political umbrella, That's why whenever law enforcement, agencies or Rangers raid their sectors and units they know that they are being hit on their roots, and so RC, cries wolf all the time and Mr. Hussain reshuffles R.C every now and than, MQM sectors and units are where from all the " protection money" is generated and "groundwork" is done,
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Feb 08, 2015 02:08pm
If crimanals are released by MQM blackmail , how will suffering of public be addressed.
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Feb 08, 2015 02:12pm
Well done.
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Feb 08, 2015 02:13pm
MQM protest against arrest of workers, once they are accused of terror activities then they disown them! Double standards, more and more looking its a mafia with political party front cover!
No wonder they always against any serious operation.
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Feb 08, 2015 02:24pm
@junaid yes the PTI soft image of Jamaat e Islami who wanted TTP offices to be opened through out Pakistan.
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Feb 08, 2015 02:27pm
@LubnaNaz so you have evidence to prove Altaf Hussain did many crimes including Jinnah Pur, JIT is the mastermind of ISI backed punjab rangers and police.
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Feb 08, 2015 02:44pm
Whenever there is an Operation in Karachi, why only MQM cries? Why?
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Feb 08, 2015 03:14pm
I have never come across a politician like Altaf. Last night he addressed people in Hyderabad, which was telecast live. It was 10.30 GMT and 03.30 in Pakistan. There were kids and even some adults in the crowds who could not stay awake, and you can't blame them. I have seen this man pulling stunts like this before. Why does this messiah, who apparently sheds tears when he sees the suffering of other, has to make those poor MQM workers suffer like this. Mr Altaf, people don't attend meetings out of their love for you but fear of your party and its thugs. If you want to address them, then at least don't add to the suufering of these people by making them attend your talks at 3 in the morning.
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Feb 08, 2015 03:33pm
Prosecute this MQM worker and MQM will disown him. Simple solution!!!
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Feb 08, 2015 03:37pm
Another MQM drama. Same thing happened earlier. The killer of 2 doctors was from MQM. Next day, sector in-charge PECHS was killed. Now, the blood of Baldia's arson is on MQM. And, suddenly, their Mehmoodabad sector in-charge goes missing. Soon, he will be dead and MQM will make sorry faces. The party should realize no one is buying it anymore. Altaf should make it a priority to clean his party.
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Feb 08, 2015 03:44pm
@asgher PTI is right selection, I was PPP supporter, but now on only PTI.
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Feb 08, 2015 03:46pm
@karachi Wally People do not vote for them, there is mass rigging in Karachi, and everyone knows, no one dare to stop them, they all know that their fate will be death, if they stop them.
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Feb 08, 2015 03:48pm
@John Do not try to prove that Altaf and his cronies are innocent, everyone knows that the activities of MQM.
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Feb 08, 2015 04:26pm
@John Stop playing the Innocent victim oppressed by "PUNJAB Based Rangers" card,Even little kids know the bitter truth about MQM, how idiot do you think people are to believe that MQM is just a innocent little political party, Everyone knows what they are, It's just that they are afraid to say it!
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Feb 08, 2015 04:41pm
@sameer knowing is one thing but no evidence to prove, no court in the world would convict anyone on the basis of knowing.
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Feb 08, 2015 04:55pm
@John Do not forget Saulat Mirza, he is MQM target killer, even President rejected his death sentence.
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Feb 08, 2015 05:01pm
I am reading Dawn after about a week! Didn't this guy resigned? MQM's Khalifa?
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Feb 08, 2015 05:26pm
@junaid you are so correct. Long live Pakistan
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Feb 08, 2015 05:48pm
Why not just 'disown' all arrested workers and carry on as usual.
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Feb 08, 2015 06:13pm
Instead of crying every time a worker is arrested, try to find out charges against the worker. If your worker was a law abiding citizen, go to court and fight for him. In case worker was 'something else', just disown him, as usual.
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Feb 08, 2015 06:17pm
@abp If innocent go to court and appeal. Otherwise, you do do the crime, you do the time.
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Feb 08, 2015 06:46pm
badlia factory???
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Feb 08, 2015 07:01pm
Rangers are doing the right thing by arresting those MQM workers who are involved in criminal activities. Well done Rangers, go for it. It's high time these miscreants are arrested, tried and if found guilty, punished with the highest punishment allowed as per the law.
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Feb 08, 2015 07:03pm
Another Drama.
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Feb 08, 2015 07:14pm
We are fed up of their clever media coverage. All knows what their real face is.
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Feb 08, 2015 08:00pm
No more shutter down, please.
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Feb 08, 2015 08:29pm
Karachi is becoming a Mafia town. The Mafia includes police and rangers also.
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Feb 08, 2015 08:49pm
Nothing new.
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Feb 08, 2015 08:58pm
JIT report is a joke. The whole system is corrupt. They manipulate and manufactured evidence for political gains all the times. In this case, it is obvious it was done to keep MQM away to form a unite front with Musharraf and some elements of PPP. And it will be continued with more arrests as this one. It will be a very bumpy ride for MQM.
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Feb 08, 2015 09:24pm
@Sab Se Pehle Pakistan Sir can you please tell us the fountain that you have been drinking from!
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Feb 08, 2015 09:30pm
Pak Rangers must eliminate these thugs!
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Feb 08, 2015 11:50pm
@sameer you think president is somebody in this country?
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Feb 09, 2015 12:13am
Give me a break, will'ya!
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Feb 09, 2015 12:34am
All lies against MQM, like QUOTA system,
exclusion of Fawad Alam is a current example
We are considered second class citizen, when things
comes to Karachi everyone unite against us. Same with politics and agencies, when things come to MQM, everyone against us.
Only separate province is a ultimate solution, lets do one final strike.
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Feb 09, 2015 01:19am
Every political parties, almost all religious parties, irrespective of their faiths, Sunni, Shia, Deubandi, Barelvi etc., regional parties, etc., all have one common complaint, and that is, killings of their workers, or, post holders and, no doubt that's true also.
For a while, is it possible that we start to think, what's going around? who is doing this, why are we killing each other? if there is any benefit in this killings, who is getting the benefit?
How can we stop this bloodshed? if we don't stop this, what will happen in the next 5-10 years?
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Feb 09, 2015 01:49am
@sameer I was implying what Quran says and the bible, blaming others without proven is a bigger sin then those who commit or are involved in criminal acts.
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Feb 09, 2015 01:52am
@LubnaNaz by PTI and Jamaat e Islami backed TTP.
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Feb 09, 2015 01:54am
@Manzur MQM should finish thugs who malign it.
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Feb 09, 2015 02:16am
Always complaining, threatening, yelling, screaming, demanding, boycotting--these are their standard tactics. Bring them to justice, their popularity is fake, hijacked on the basis of race, ethnicity and language.
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Feb 09, 2015 03:46am
Any individual, group or party involved in extortion, murder or violent acts must be brought to justice! Period!
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Feb 09, 2015 04:47am
Interestingly, they take turns, sometimes it is Rizvi, sometimes Siddiqui ,if there is more hue & cry against MQM, then Farooq Sattar shows up. All his Master's voices, the supremo Altaf of London.
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Feb 09, 2015 04:49am
Hang few top honchos of this mafia, erroneously called a political party, may be we can have peace in Karachi. Sad part , they are trying to get back in coalition with PPP to rule Sindh.
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Feb 09, 2015 05:06am
FInally, MQM getting what they deserve.
They have held the city of Karachi hostage for many years. It's time that this is broken.
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Feb 09, 2015 05:39am
Enough of this terror sponsors. Just disband MQM, arrest all of their criminals and bring don to justice.
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Feb 09, 2015 07:01am
@asgher .......why do you want to join a politic party?Politics is meant for crooks
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Feb 09, 2015 11:08pm
Who does Mr Altaf Hussien think he is by demanding the immediate release of a suspect arrested by the police.
Why does this man not come to Pakistan and then talk.
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