HYDERABAD: PPP activists accused of creating nuisance
HYDERABAD, Oct 13: Accusing PPP workers of indulging in hooliganism, leaders of the PPP-SB Hyderabad chapter announced holding of protest demonstrations throughout Sindh on Tuesday against the alleged excesses of PPP Students and Youth Wing. They also called on its leadership to rein in such activists.
Chief organiser Mohammad Amin Viko, City President Raja Rasheed Samoon and SPSF-SB organiser Syed Imran Ali Shah told a press conference on Monday that on October 10, some activists of the SPSF and Youth Wing were sitting in a restaurant in Pathan Colony where PPP activist Mohammad Ali with some other people also entered. The two groups exchanged hot words after which Mohammad Ali’s group attacked their rivals creating panic. The PPP men resorted to firing, they alleged.
They also alleged Mohammad Ali of receiving bullet injury due to the firing by his own men. They alleged that the same night leaders of PPP student and youth wings attacked, ransacked, and looted the home of PPP-SB worker Faisal Leghari and also subjected women to violence.
Thereafter, the PPP-SB leaders said that hoodlums attacked their office in doctors’ hostels and tore the photograph of Mir Murtaza Bhutto and Z.A. Bhutto. On the next day, they accused the PPP activists of damaging the portraits of Bhutto family in Pathan Colony.
They said that if administration was interested in maintaining law and order in the province, the PPP leadership should rein in its students and youth wing failing which the consequences will be disastrous.
TERRORISM: MQM MPAs Sohail Yousuf and Waseem Hussain on Sunday met with the president of the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Haji Mohammad Yaqoob, and conveyed to him a message from the party chief Altaf Hussain, advising the businessmen community to remain alert to any possibility of terrorism in Hyderabad.
They said that terrorism posed a serious danger to national security and was a challenge for all people. The MPAs told the chamber chief that the MQM volunteers had been tasked with carrying out patrolling round the clock to nip the evil in the bud.
They said that the trade organisations should install CCTVs at the business centres to keep an eye on the enemies of law and cooperate with law enforcement agencies.
Haji Mohammad Yaqoob said that the business community supported government actions against terrorism and appealed to all trade organisations to keep an eye on saboteurs and extend help to law enforcement agencies.