hatched to stop the MQM from taking part in the upcoming local government elections, and a plan was afoot to hand over Karachi to Daish and Taliban by weakening the MQM.
To make these nefarious designs successful, a ‘civilian martial law’ was being imposed on the city, Sattar said and vowed that Karachiites would foil all conspiracies of handing over the city to terrorists.
Dr Sattar said that the MQM was a responsible party which did not unnecessarily blame any individual or institution.
He said the party believed that some Rangers personnel were involved in illegal arrests, torture and extra-judicial killings.
He accused the Rangers and law-enforcement agencies of even harassing media persons for coverage of this rally and said that they had gone berserk and also shut down MQM’s web television which proved their discriminatory attitude towards the MQM. But, he said, the MQM would not be deterred through these pressure tactics, and it would continue its struggle for the stability of the country.
“It was only the MQM which raised a voice against the injustices being done to media persons, and now these groups have succumbed to pressures and threats of these institutions,” he said. The MQM, he said, had never confronted any agency after the 1992 operation and the continued state operation since 2013. It was a peaceful party and had always avoided any offensive policy.
Others who also spoke on the occasion were Waseem Akhter, in charge of the Central Executive Council, Zareen Majeed, member of Rabita Committee, and Deputy Convener Syed Shahid Pasha.
Throughout the rally protestors were shouting slogans and carrying posters and portraits of the ‘victims’ of Rangers.
The banners were inscribed with demands for stopping of ‘injustices towards the Mohajirs’.
The participants were also holdings blood-stained clothes of the workers killed in an alleged encounter with the Rangers.