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Monday, August 03, 2009
By M. Zeeshan Azmat
Karachi
The recent attack on a rally led by Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) President Bashir Khan Qureshi has generated a debate among Sindhi nationalists and political observers.
Most of them believe that ‘country’s most ubiquitous secret agency’ was behind the conspiracy and they also agree that the agency, through this action, wanted to create lawlessness among people, but fortunately could not succeed.
Bashir Qureshi, Chairman of its own faction within JSQM, was attacked near Race Course Ground within the Malir Cantonment Police limits on July 24. He had planned a sit-in along with the party leaders and workers near Super Highway against the killing of a party worker, when the assassins opened fire at the rally and killed JSQM Thatta President Mushtaq Khaskehli on the spot. One of the assassins was also killed and another handed over to the police by JSQM officials.
Awami Tehreek President Abdul Qadir Ranto said that the attack was a conspiracy against the Sindhi people. “It might be possible that the assassins belonged to the secret agency or men from agency under the cover of political party or vice versa,” Ranto added.
Whoever was involved in the matter and whatever the reason(s) for the attack, the message was obvious and it was made clear that people had no rights in this country, he said.
Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party (STPP) President Dr Qadir Magsi said that there was no doubt that the secret agency was behind the crime but, it seemed that they used anti-Pakhtoon elements in the incident to spark off a Sindhi-Pakhtoon clash throughout the province.
Commenting on the incident, he said that a Sindhi against Urdu-Speaking clash was also planned but, fortunately, it could not be implemented as the agency’s card was recovered from the assassins.
On the other hand, one of the JSQM factions — the Aresar Group — said that the “Punjab-based agency” implanted the incident to once again spread Sindhi versus Urdu-Speaking violence in the province.
The party spokesperson said that religious parties and outstation nationalists groups with the support of secret agencies wanted to create differences among the ‘sons of the
soil’. They are not happy to see Urdu-speaking people and ethnic Sindhis coming closer to each other and want to derail the process of reconciliation, he said.
Maqsood Khan Qureshi, younger brother of Bashir Khan Qureshi said that the agency had planned a conspiracy to engineer riots between ethnic Sindhis and Pakhtoons and ethnic Sindhis and Urdu-speaking people.
“It is the State’s job to investigate the matter and present the truth to the public,” he said. “We have provided evidence to the law-and-order department and now it is their turn to produce results.”
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