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MQM being politically victimized in Karachi operation: Sattar

ISLAMABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movment (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar said on Wednesday that his party was being politically victimized and pushed against the wall.

Putting forward his party’s stance on the Karachi operation in the National Assembly, Sattar said a conspiracy has been hatched against the MQM and the party’s arrested workers were not being presented in court.

Sattar told the

By TICKER
August 12, 2015
ISLAMABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movment (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar said on Wednesday that his party was being politically victimized and pushed against the wall.

Putting forward his party’s stance on the Karachi operation in the National Assembly, Sattar said a conspiracy has been hatched against the MQM and the party’s arrested workers were not being presented in court.

Sattar told the National Assembly that over 40 workers of the party had been killed extra-judicially.

According to the MQM leader, houses of party workers were being raided in Karachi.

Sattar further said that a ban has been enforced on social and charitable activities of the party while television channels have been instructed against live broadcast of MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s speeches.

“MQM is being pushed against the wall and the path is being cleared for another in the local bodies elections,” Sattar said. He also stated that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was being helped in Karachi.

Following the assembly session, lawmakers from the MQM submitted their resignations to National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq.

Farooq Sattar spoke with reporters after the resignations were accepted and said MQM had resigned from the NA, Senate and Sindh Assembly. The MQM leader emphasised that the decision to resign was a political one and in protest.

“The Karachi operation is not against criminals and terrorists,” Sattar said.

The MQM leader alleged that the objective of security forces in Karachi was not to prove cases against accused in court but rather to keep them detained indefinitely.

Sattar claimed that the MQM’s demand for the formation of a judicial commission to probe extra-judicial killings had fallen on deaf ears.