MQM-H stages protest outside Governor House

Karachi
Women activists of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi staged a protest outside the Governor House on Monday alongside the meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif former president Asif Ali Zardari being held inside.
The MQM-H women wing registered grievances against their continuous dislocation from their areas of residence due to the security reasons and killing of their numerous workers in targeted attacks.
The demonstrators also presented a memorandum to Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif who was in the city to attend the apex committee meeting.
They resented the prime minister’s attitude, which, they termed, was discriminatory towards the people of Karachi. They asserted that it seemed that premier was overlooking the entire nation just to favour, ‘certain groups’ who, according to MQM activists, had unleashed reign of terror in the city
Due to PM’s officially scheduled meetings, he could not meet Haqqiqi activists, but they said they had submitted memorandums to both the PM and COAS consisting of complaints and grievances the Mohajir community was facing since long. “For the last 12 years we have been forcibly dislodged from our homes and being victimised at the hands of “mafias’ of the city and nobody dare to pay attention to our heeds’ they moaned.
The protesters said, “Nawaz Sharif is the PM of the country and he must pay attention to our grievances as we were being deprived of our fundamental rights, adding, “It is the responsibility of the prime minister to resolve issues of entire nation, hopefully he would also listen to our complaints and would issue necessary orders.”
They asserted, “We follow ideology of Afaq Ahmed and our leader has always given us the lesson of peace and non-violence.”

Transparent trial
The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has demanded free and transparent trial of Baldia Factory inferno case in Islamabad or Lahore high courts.
JI city chief Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman said on Monday the Karachiites want solid and cohesive action against the criminal elements regardless of any political affiliation for the restoration of lasting peace in the city.
“The lasting peace could not be restored in Karachi without effective measures taken by the government against the terrorist outfits”, he added.
Naeem regretted that the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his visit to Karachi did not meet the affected families of Baldia Factory inferno, Dr Shakeel Oaj and Prof Sibte Jaffar.
He said the JIT report on Baldia factory fire had unveiled the real faces behind this tragic incident and termed the incident “a blackest incident” in the history of country.
The JI leader said that the deteriorated law and order situation in the city was restricting fair trials as was evident from resignation of public prosecutor Shazia Hinjara.