The Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) on Monday ended its protest sit-in after successful negotiations with the provincial government.
Waqar Mehdi, the adviser to chief minister, arrived in the protest and convinced the MWM leadership to end the protest. He announced that the government had accepted 13 out of 15 demands made by the party. On behalf of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Mehdi held out the assurance that the government was taking concrete steps to end target killings in the city.
Earlier, hundreds of MWM workers including women and children, staged a sit-in outside Supreme Court’s Karachi Registry. The demonstrators wanted to take their protest rally to Chief Minister House but the police restricted them at Shaheen Complex with all roads blocked with shipping containers and barbed wires.
Led by Maulana Amin Shaheedi, the protestors were demanding end to target killings and sectarian attacks in the city, demanding arrest, conviction and penalisation of the culprits.