KARACHI-
Sindh Assembly members form Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday staged a walkout from an assembly session in protest of an address by Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah.
MQM lawmaker Khwaja Izharul Hassan asked the speaker about the role of provincial government in the investigation into extrajudicial killings of MQM workers.
He added that MQM workers waited with dead bodies for 10 hours outside the CM house, but no government representative took a notice.
CM Shah, in his address, said a decision to launch Karachi operation was taken in all parties conference headed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Lauding the efforts of (LEAs) in ongoing targeted operation in Karachi, the chief minister claimed that targeted killings in the metropolitan city have been reduced by 45 percent in the last two years.
Shah said that he presented the facts before the prime minister, who he said, hailed him and his administration for ‘performing well’.
“Chief of Army Staff also appreciated me and my administration in the apex committee,” he added.
Responding to MQM criticism, Shah asked why there were no protests against killings when MQM was a part of the government.
“Who was in the government when 40 people were killed in Karachi on May 11?,” he said.
Shah said that the opposition party workers ‘attacked’ the chief minister house to protest killings of their party workers.
His statements caused an uproar in the session with MQM representative chanting slogans and staging a walkout in protest.
