Limiting special powers of Rangers to Karachi only is a discrimination with Sindh as criminals and killers also live in other parts of Sindh which should also be nabbed, said speakers at a pro-Rangers’ powers demonstration in front of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Sunday.
A large number of people, carryings banners and flags, attended the demonstration organised by the Pasban-e-Pakistan. Addressing the protesters, Pasban Vice President and President of Karachi Organizing Committee Tariq Chandiwalla said that Pasban wanted equal law enforcement in whole Sindh, including Karachi, without any discrimination.
He asked why the rulers of Sindh opposed Rangers’ action in Sindh. He asked if only ‘angles’ live in Sindh. He said extortionists, dacoits and target killers were being patronised in Sindh and unless action was taken against them, a lasting peace could not be established in the city.
Pasban’s Vice President Abdul Hakim Quaid said that Karachi could not be ruled while sitting in Larkana. He said history showed that only those nations had progressed which ensured upholding of law and did not discriminate between weak and powerful. He said that rulers had double standards as far as laws and their implementation was concerned.
He said the rulers were themselves afraid and they could not move without bulletproof vehicles. “They also address rallies behind the bulletproof glasses. Like Karachi, criminal mafias should be eliminated from the whole country including Sindh.”
Pasban Karachi organising committee member Sardar Zulfiqar said it was necessary to make Karachi a separate administrative province.
He said the rulers of Sindh had been discriminating between Karachi and Sindh. He said: “We reject the pressure to stop Rangers from taking action again some criminal elements of Sindh.”
The protestors demanded end to the VIP culture and double standards of laws for the rich and the poor.
Those who spoke on the occasion included Sheikh Muhammad Shakeel, Zafar Iqbal, Hamid Siddiqui, Akram Agaria, Amjad Baloch, Akhtar Qureshi, Javed Iqbal, Rashid Khan, Tehseen Baluch, Naveed Baluch, Nasir Wali, Muhammad Ejaz, Kalimullah, Sardar Javed, Jumma Khan, Bashir Khan, Hamid Awan, Syed Rizwan, Malik Abrar, Ikram Qureshi, Muhammad Azhar and others.
