KARACHI, Jan 12: Dozens of residents hailing from Landhi Town held a demonstrarion on Thursday accusing some police officials of commiting excesses against them. They demanded that these officials be suspended and an inquiry instituted, otherwise they would observe a strike.

The members of Muttahida Afridi Qaumi Ittehad (MAQI) held a rally outside Karachi Press Club and said a senior police official posted in the town and his armed men, were acting on directions given by an ethnic organisation, and trying to spread unrest and hatred among the Punjabis, Pakhtoons, Mohajirs and other communities.

They said the police officials had summoned notables of the area to the police station and misbehaved with them. They also accused the police patronising illegal activities like narcotic and gambling dens, land mafia, extortionists in the area. The MAQI representatives warned that if immediate action was not taken, they would stage a sit-in at the Governor’s House and Chief Minister’s House and resort to a strike in Landhi.