Karachi left at the mercy of looters, bribe-takers, alleges MQM-P

Accusing the Pakistan Peoples Party-led provincial government of immensely disturbing the traders’ community of Karachi by imposing lockdowns to mint money through police and other departments in the guise of implementing Covid SOPs, leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan said on Tuesday the metropolis and its residents and traders had been left at the mercy of robbers, looters and bribe-takers.

Addressing a press conference at the party’s headquarters along with Karachi traders’ leaders, MQM-P central leaders Khalid Maqbool Siddiqi and Amir Khan said that in the name of the lockdown, provincial government officials had been abusing and extorting traders, and the police had been picking them up, locking them up and releasing them after minting millions of rupees in extortion.

“The MQM-P has tabled a resolution in the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday against the abusive and biased attitude of the government against Karachi’s traders and a similar bill will be tabled in the National Assembly today.”

They said the party would put the demands of Karachi’s traders before the prime minister and the National Coordination for Operation Centre’s head and ask them to save the city from destruction.

Karachi trades’ leaders Jamil Paracha, Hakeem Shah, Shaikh Habib, Khawaja Tariq and others also spoke to the presser and shared the grievance and problems the traders were facing in the city.