After hoisting of the Awami National Party (ANP) flag cost a worker his life in Karachi the other day, the party lodged its protest in the Senate on Tuesday through a token walkout that was also joined by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
“We cannot hoist our party flags in Karachi …is this democracy?” Senator Shahi Syed from the ANP questioned, perturbed as he referred to Monday night’s incident.
According to details, an ANP worker was killed while he was hoisting the party flag and two others injured in Karachi’s Frontier Colony.
“For how long will we carry dead bodies of our people and take the injured to hospitals?” Syed questioned, adding that some four to five million Pushtoons were living in Karachi but were subject to atrocities.
The senator, who was previously the Sindh chapter head of ANP, added that all political parties, including the protesting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), were in power (either provincial or federal) but it was the ANP which was being pushed into a corner.
The ANP lawmaker demanded that both federal and provincial governments need to be on the same page in addressing law and order issues of Karachi.
“Don’t push us to climb mountains,” Syed warned using the term used for separatists of Balochistan.
Before walking out, he announced the boycott of the Senate session and demanded that the killers of the ANP worker should be arrested.
The PPP joined the ANP in their boycott in order to express solidarity