except one who once had an association with the MQM.
Sabzwari said that police could also do a good job provided they were not used to impose one’s political mandate.Karachi Additional IG Ghulam Qadir Thebo while speaking in the programme, said, “I am just a police officer. I do not have any grudge against anyone. All the people are equal to me.”
Thebo said that he did not cite the name of Muttahida during his press conference today. He said that he had simply said at the press conference that the accused had been saying that he belonged to the MQM. Only after the investigation it would transpire whether the accused was speaking the truth or not. He said there was no policy envisaging targeting of a particular party and action would be taken against anyone involved in crimes no matter what political party he belonged to.
The additional IG said that the MQM had not provided the police with the number of the high-roof car allegedly used in the kidnapping of Sohail Ahmed. Police and other law-enforcement agencies did not use high-roof cars. He said they insisted on the MQM to have an FIR about the missing of Sohail Ahmed registered. Thebo said that a team had been formed to inquire into the killing of Sohail Ahmed and they would act on whatever evidence the MQM would provide them.
Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon said that the government had ordered the police to arrest those involved in Sohail Ahmed’s murder.The minister said that it was being said that a PPP senior leader, Saeed Chawla, had had an altercation with the slain MQM activist at a Kutchery. “The question I would like to ask here is what has the MQM unit in charge been doing there?”
Sharjeel Memon said that it was unfair to accuse anyone without any evidence and everyone knew how long and since when Karachi had been in the grip of lawlessness. He said that MQM during the press conference had also accused the police and the Rangers.
The provincial information minister said Lyari in Karachi was the PPP’s area and yet the highest number of activities during the targeted operation took place in Lyari. He said neither had the chief minister nor had the Sindh government issued any instructions for acting against a particular party.
Sharjeel Memon said that there was nothing wrong if the additional IG had shared with the people some details about the killers of Sibte Jaffar and Shakeel Ouj.The minister said that the fact that many of the people arrested during the targeted operation belonged to the MQM could not be denied. He said it was written in the court judgment in Wali Babar murder case that those convicted belonged to the MQM. He said the MQM should expel the people within it who were involved in criminal activities.