The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Thursday officially requisitioned the session of the Sindh Assembly.
The request to call the session bore the signatures of 44 MQM lawmakers.
Opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly and MQM member Faisal Sabzwari said that instead of identifying criminals, activists of his party were being apprehended.
Sabzwari condemned the action against the MQM activists, adding that the party had requisitioned the session in order to debate the treatment being meted out to their workers.
He claimed that the MQM activists were being dragged in false cases, adding that those behind the deteriorating law and order situation were not being brought to book.
The MQM’s request to summon the assembly session was made a day after the arrest of former party lawmaker Nadim Hashmi on murder and terror charges over the killing of two policemen. An anti-terrorism court has sent the ex-MPA on a week-long physical remand in the case.
The arrest of Hashmi, in charge of the MQM’s North Nazimabad unit and former member of the Sindh Assembly, sparked anger in the MQM ranks who called the action an ‘unjust move’.
