The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader, Haider Abbas Rizvi, has alleged that their party workers were being picked up by plainclothes personnel.
Addressing a press conference along with MQM Coordination Committee members on Tuesday, Rizvi said: “people dressed in plainclothes were detaining MQM’s workers and they have no identity.”
“This situation is worrisome for us. Our 21 workers were arrested by police and Rangers, but none was produced before courts.” Rizvi said their party workers were being subjected to severe torture.
“We are receiving dead bodies of our missing workers in Karachi and other parts of Sindh. “We always called for the restoration of peace in Karachi but the agencies have started picking our men,” he said.
The MQM leader said five more party workers were detained by law enforcers. Haider Abbas questioned why LEAs including police had failed to take action against plainclothes men driving vehicles with tinted glass.
Meanwhile, MQM leader Khawaja Izharul Hassan also levelled the same allegations against intelligence personnel as Rizvi did.
He was speaking to media persons after boycotting the Sindh assembly session amid uproar in the House. Hassan said 18 workers of MQM were already missing but the other day five more were lifted by secret people in plainclothes.
He said his party workers were picked and extra-judiciary killed by ‘unknown elements’. The MQM leader said the Sindh government was also not aware about the MQM missing persons.
He said Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah was nominated captain of the Karachi operation but his performance was very poor as the MQM workers went missing under his nose.
Earlier, the Sindh Assembly member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement vehemently protested in the house over what they called ‘extra-judicial killings’ of the party workers in Karachi.
When the session began with Deputy Speaker Shehla Raza in the chair, the opposition party lawmakers debated the matter of workers’ killings in Karachi.
The debate lasted for around 35 minutes. Later, the MQM PMAs presented an adjournment motion in the house; however, the deputy speaker rejected it. It irked the MQM members who tore down copies of the agenda, rising in their seats, chanting slogans against the government and demanding that the house should debate the issue. The protest created chaos in the house which compelled the acting speaker to adjourn the session.
The last Friday’s Sindh Assembly session also witnessed the same pandemonium when opposition parties led by the MQM protested over ‘fake’ appointments by the PPP provincial government.
