KARACHI, April 28: Participants of an All Parties Conference on Thursday condemned the killing of 57 people including eminent ulema and Sunni Tehreek leaders in the April 11 Nishtar Park tragedy and killing of a student at the Govt Commerce College Karachi, and demanded immediate removal of the Sindh governor and home minister.

The APC titled ‘Karachi in the Grip of Fascism’ was organized by the Jamaat-i-Islami at the Idara Noor-i-Haq and was presided over by JI Naib-Amir Prof Ghafoor Ahmed.

Prof Ghafoor said rulers had transformed Karachi into a slaughterhouse where political opponents were being killed on a daily basis while the state machinery was being used to protect killers and terrorists.

He said the meeting between Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto in London was a welcoming sign. He stressed the need for initiating joint struggle on one-point agenda – restoration of democracy in the country.

He suggested formation of a steering committee to discuss and deliberate on the city's political situation and taking practical steps in this regard.

The ARD’s leader, Zain Ansari, said people were neither safe in Karachi, Balochistan nor in the tribal areas, adding the rule that 'might is right' was prevailing in Pakistan where both terrorists and law enforcers were hunting and massacring innocent people.

Allama Hasan Turabi, chief of the Islami Tehreek Pakistan said that unless justice was provided, people would continue to suffer.He said that local rulers on directives from abroad were trying to create rifts among the Pakistani people.

He called upon the Muslims of all sects to get united and initiate a joint struggle for removing the pro-US government otherwise, he warned, Pakistan would remain in the grip of terrorism.

On the occasion, several resolutions were unanimously adopted condemning what they called massacre of people, law enforcing agencies' role in protecting terrorists, governments' failure to nab killers of ulema, politicians and students, and the federal government's continuous support to terrorists.—PPI