LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has reiterated his demand for use of biometric system to ensure free and fair by-election in Kara­chi’s NA-246 constituency.

Speaking at a press conference here on Sunday, he wondered if the government was so helpless that it could not arrange the system even in a single constituency.

Mr Haq said an atmosphere of fear and insecurity prevailed in Karachi which had been in the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s ‘control’ for the past 24 years.

Read: Karachi's NA-246 by-poll: A three-way contest

He said that MQM chief Altaf Husain had apologised to the establishment on Saturday but had not explained for what crimes he had sought the apology.

He said the people of Karachi wanted the MQM leader to apologise for the lawyers’ murders in 2007, burning alive of the Baldia Town factory workers and the assassination of journalist Wali Khan Babar.

Published in Dawn, April 20th, 2015

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