KARACHI
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmakers on Wednesday said the Amnesty International’s report on the MQM was unfounded, baseless and fabricated.
In a joint statement, they said the report was an attempt to discredit and malign the MQM. They added that the report had hurt the feelings of millions of MQM supporters.
They said the AI had published malicious reports against their party in the past too. They added that the MQM had always issued explanatory statements in response to their reports, but they never published them.
They said that the Amnesty International never published any reports on the massacre of MQM supporters. They added that they did not publish any reports on the massacre of MQM workers on October 31, 1986 in Sohrab Goth and on December 14, 1986 in Qasba and Aligarh.
They deplored that the AI did not publish any report on the massacre in Hyderabad on December 30, 1988 when hundreds of people were killed. They added that Amnesty International never condemned the extrajudicial killing of MQM workers.