Manholes cover campaigner complains of police harassment
KARACHI: Alamgir Khan, whose self-initiated social media campaign “fix it” to get the open manholes covered recently got viral, said on Thursday that the authorities instead of paying heed to the problem being highlighted were harassing him, his family and his fellow volunteers apparently to “keep them silent”.
Mr Khan, a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf activist and former office-bearer, rejected the impression that the campaign launched using social media as a platform had anything to do with his political ideology and insisted that it was a self-initiated campaign to find a solution to the problems faced by every single Karachiite.
“They have responded to the campaign in the wrong way,” he told Dawn while referring to some recent incidents of “harassment” by the police which he believed were being done at the behest of the higher authorities.
“My father got a call from an inspector of the Ferozabad police station who asked him to visit the police station as our car has been found involved in a hit-and-run on Sharea Faisal. The reason of all this is that I am using my father’s car for this campaign.”