HYDERABAD, March 31: The Hyderabad chapter of the Sunni Tehrik has condemned the registration of criminal cases against its activists and demanded the RPO and the DIG Hyderabad to withdraw the “two false cases”.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club on Saturday, Mohammad Khalid Qadri who was accompanied by Sufi Raza Mohammad Abbasi, Khalid Hassan Attari and Mohammad Amir Qadri said the A-Section police registered false cases against its seven activists on March 24 in connection with the Eid Milad-un-Nabi function.

Mohammad Khalid Qadri further said the police refused to register their FIR and only filed a non-cognisable case. He said they had informed the DIG about the excesses at a meeting and demanded the removal of the SHO A-section police station.

Qadri said the party took out a rally in connection with the Eid Milad-un-Nabi on Friday, wherein a false case of firing was registered against half a dozen party workers at the city police station despite the fact that the rally did not proceeded to Tilak Chari.

He said the two cases were registered purely on political rivalry as there was no truth in the FIRs. He said the peaceful atmosphere of the city was being polluted due to the partisan attitude of the police. He put forward a plea to stop load-shedding during Rabiul Awal.

He demanded immediate arrest of the people who had desecrated the Holy Book in Obauro; those who had dishonoured the Khulfa-e-Rashideen in Talhar; and those who attacked the activists of Dawat-e-Islami and Sunni Tehrik in Khairpur.

He asked the President, minister of interior, Sindh chief minister, home secretary, PPO Sindh and RPO Hyderabad to order the withdrawal of false cases and suspend the two SHOs for registering false FIRs.

LAWYERS: “The Lawyers Council for Support of President General Pervez Musharraf” has taken strong exception to the issuance of notices to lawyers and termination of memberships of some by their respective associations. It termed the entire process illegal, unconstitutional and malafide, aimed at harassing the dissident lawyers.

At a news conference at the press club on Saturday, the convener of the council, Jehangir Shaikh along with 10 other lawyers, said a constitutional petition had been filed in the Sindh High Court principal bench Karachi by Syed Shoaib Shibli and others challenging the legality of the show-cause notices and powers of executive committee of the Sindh Bar Council.

They claimed it was totally wrong to assume that the entire lawyers’ community was against the filing of reference by the President of Pakistan in the Supreme Judicial Council against the Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

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