HYDERABAD, May 27: Pakistan Tehrik Insaf Chief Imran Khan has said that he would proceed to London on June 9 and lodge a case of murder of 45 people against Altaf Hussain, “on whose orders innocent people were killed in Karachi on 12 May, 2007”.
Mr Khan, who couldn't reach Hyderabad following a ban on his entry into Sindh, was addressing via telephone from Lahore to an All Parties Conference, organised here on Sunday by Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party.
The moot was attended by provincial heads of many opposition political parties including PPP-P, PML-N, ANP, PKMAP, Balochistan National Party, Sindh National Front, MMA and others.
Mr Khan charged that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain and ‘his mafia’ had held people of Karachi hostage and they needed freedom from this captivity. He also said that the present junta was more loyal to Mr Hussain and MQM than to Pakistan and its people. He called present rulers a security risk and asked the nation to get rid of them.
Mr Khan said he would also invoke the House of Lords of UK and ask them to expel Altaf from their country, “as he was ring leader of a terrorist gang involved in killing of hundreds of people”. He said that people of Karachi were made prisoners at gunpoint by terrorists. “We have to liberate them”, he pledged.
Mr Khan said he was not afraid of threats. He said it was violation of his basic rights to deny him entry in Sindh. He said only MQM and preset junta were responsible for the May 12 carnage.
KHUHRO: Leader of the opposition in Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, said there was nothing named government in Sindh “as it is being ruled by terrorists of MQM”. He demanded arrest of the culprits of May 12 and punishment to them.
Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi said for the last two days, MQM workers were roaming streets of Hyderabad despite imposition of section 144 just to terrorise people and to foil this conference. But, in spite of these tactics, leaders from all political parties and civil society gathered here.
He also asked the Urdu speaking people to come out of the yoke of terrorists and help make Sindh stronghold of peace as this land also belonged to them.
He asked all parties to resolve that from today they would not tolerate the terrorists in Sindh. “They have either to give up arms or to leave Sindh,” he warned.
He deplored that Sindh government on behest of MQM denied entry to Imran Khan who was chief guest of this APC.—PPI
Our Hyderabad correspondent adds: General Secretary of Balochistan National Party (BNP) Habib Jalib, spoke against what he termed as MQM's expansionist designs.
He foresaw a plan by Gen Pervez Musharraf to expand the population of Urdu-speaking people up to Gwadar and Pasni and said land off 250 kilo meters off coastal highway had been purchased for this purpose.
He called for exposing methodology of MQM in the context of status of Karachi which is financial capital of the country. He said MQM shouldn't be taken lightly as population of Karachi was increasing that's why it was decided to settle parts of it in Gawadar.
“The development by the people and for people is acceptable but what is going on in Balochistan is retardation and not development that's why we reject it", he contended.
He said, Baloch people had learnt a lesson from colonisation of Sindh and they wouldn't let anyone convert them in minority in Gwadar or Sonmiyani.
He felt disappointed with political forces for their failure to cash-on recent opportunities that could have led to downfall of the present regime. He said military operation in Balochistan, killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti and presidential reference against the Chief Justice were times when movement for civil disobedience should have been kicked-off.
The Sindh National Front leader Gul Mohammad Jakhrani, Vice President Awami National Party Sindh chapter, Asmatullah Khan Mehsood, MMA's Senator and General Secretary of JUI-F, Dr.Khalid Mehmood Soomro, MMA's MNA Asadullah Bhutto, National Party leader Dr.Abdul Hayee Baloch, PML-N leader Mamnoon Hussain also spoke on the occasion.
BODY FORMED: A "Save Sindh Action Committee" (SSC) was formed at the All Parties Conference. The purpose of committee's formation is to counter the May 12 like situation. It also called for formation of parliamentary commission to probe May 12 killings and submit its report before the parliament.
The committee headed by Dr.Qadir Magsi as it’s convener, comprises 14-leaders of political and nationalist parties. It would hold its first meeting in Karachi on June 4 at residence of Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, in Karachi.
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