A partial strike was observed in parts of the city on Friday after a strike call given by the Sunni Ittehad Council in protest against the conviction of Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer.
Firing incidents were reported in Korangi, Landhi, New Karachi, Shah Faisal Colony, Gulistan-e-Johar, Samanabad and few other areas of Karachi in the wee hours of Friday. While, three public buses were set ablaze in the city’s Korangi and Orangi Town areas.
Moreover, a Sunni Tehrik activist was accidently shot dead in Samanabad by his party fellows, who were trying to force the shops in the area to shut down.
Mumtaz Qadri is a broad daylight assassin. When I see people glorifying him, I feel ashamed to be a Pakistani.
Is this the Pakistan promised by Jinnah?
Is it because we exploited the name of Islam to create Pakistan?
Have the muslim intellectuals who opposed the idea of Pakistan been proved right?
We must find answers to these questions. Otherwise, we are doomed.
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