KARACHI, May 26: Members of the Karachi Bar Association reacted strongly to the massive graffiti campaign by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement activists against chief of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf Imran Khan, and termed it ‘yet another blunder’ committed by the party.

They observed that Mr Khan had no personal grudge with MQM chief Altaf Hussain, and noted that MQM activists were angry at him only because he supported the lawyers’ movement for the independence of judiciary.

Speaking at the KBA general body meeting here on Saturday, they urged the British government to cancel Altaf Hussain’s citizenship and deport him for, what they said, instigating his workers to kill innocent people in Karachi. “We are also ready to stage a protest demonstration in front of the British consulate and the Governor’s House against Altaf Hussein,” one of the speakers said.

KBA President Iftikhar Javaid Qazi advised the MQM to adopt a civilised way of registering protest and avoid breaching democratic norms. He said that by using forces to block the way of lawyers’ and opposition’s rallies, the MQM would not succeed in suppressing the democratic forces.

K.K Javaid Khan, Naheed Afzaal, Mehmood-ul-Hassan, Musawwir Ali Khan, Sati M. Ishaq, Khalil Dogar, Mehar Ilahi, Mubbasher Mirza and Prof Umer Farooq also spoke at the meeting.

Naheed Afzaal said that the way that MQM was holding rallies and besieged the courts and Nawabshah Press Club was not a civilised way and called for an end to such practices.

Through a unanimously approved resolution, the general body cancelled membership of three women lawyers, Tabassum Sultana, Rehana and Romana, for opposing the lawyers’ movement publicly.

SUO MOTU: Vice-Chairman of the Sindh Bar Council Mohammad Ameen Lakhani, SBC Human Rights Committee Chairman Aaqil Lodhi, SBC members Mehmood-ul-Hassan, Mohammad Ali Abbasi, Abdul Haleem Siddiqui, Noor Naz Agha, Ghulam Nabi Shaikh and Khwaja Mansoor, and Karachi Bar Association President Iftikhar Javaid Qazi have welcomed the suo motu notice into the May 12 mayhem taken by Chief Justice of Sindh High Court Sabihuddin Ahmed.