HYDERABAD, May 21: The Awami Tehrik has decided to support the three-day strike called by Pustoon Loye Jirga in Karachi for May 25, 26 and 27 against the May 12 killings.

The decision was taken during a meeting of the central general council of the party on Sunday. It also decided to hold a big public meeting in Thal on June 23 to mark Chehlum of the senior AT leader Mohammad Nawaz Kunrani, one of the victims of May 12 killings.

AT chief Rasool Bux Palijo presided the meeting and briefed the journalists, on Monday at his residence.

He demanded to ban the MQM and declare it a terrorist organisation. He asked to register a case against perpetrators of bloodshed adding: “Architects and supporters of bloodshed have been exposed.”

He said the ‘drama’ of Hafsa mosque and madressa had been staged to conceal the May 12 crime. It will not surprise anyone if more blood is shed in Karachi, Islamabad and other places, he said.

He further asked to reopen the cases registered against those involved in terrorist activities and challenge them in courts which were withdrawn by the present government.

Mr Palijo demanded removal of the Musharraf government for violating the constitution of Pakistan, and the international law.

He demanded repatriation of all illegal people who entered into Pakistan after 1954.

Mr Palijo said that the general council had also decided to prepare a case against terrorists, and black-mailing activities of the MQM. He said that those Sindhis who had disassociated themselves from the MQM after the Karachi incidence were welcomed by the Awami Tehrik and the Sindhi nation. He appealed to the people of Sindh and other provinces to launch a social and political boycott of those involved in killings.

Mr Palijo condemned attacks on lawyers, journalists and private TV channels.