Joint Investigation Team Reports prepared by ISI, MI, IB, Pakistan Rangers Sindh, Karachi police, Special Branch and CID are lying with the government for a long time without any action while innocent lives in Karachi were lost routinely during this time. It’s criminal neglect on the part of the government.. while it is widely believed that this neglect was intentional. The government instead of taking action on the evidence of heinous crimes have been negotiating political mileage to prolong their tenure with MQM.
Why Haider Abbas Rizvi, an MQM legislator who was named in one of these JIT as a person who has been giving instructions for murder, has not been arrested as yet for interrogation. It should be up to the courts to decide weather to grant him bail or not. The allegations are very serious. Government has no right to use these crime evidence to negotiate political gains.
Nobody is against MQM’s right to practice politics in Pakistan. However negotiating politics to hide the criminality of their alleged operatives is a very serious crime. MQM should denounce their affiliation with any criminal no matter how important portfolio he may be enjoying in the party if they want to continue politics in Pakistan. Criminality behind the facade of politics should not be tolerated by the people of Pakistan at any cost..!!!
These JITs can be viewed on following web site..
JIT report gathering dust in PM House for 19 months
Umar Cheema
Thursday, September 08, 2011
ISLAMABAD: As killings continue in Karachi, a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report by seven law enforcement agencies on the causes and characters behind this bloodbath still awaits the eyes of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, 19 months after its submission.
The first-ever official report of this kind blames the MQM for using violent means to gain it’s political ends, also noting that as many as 83 police officers involved in the mid-’90s operation against the MQM were target-killed one by one, making them a horrible example for their surviving colleagues.
The report recommended de-politicization of the police and the de-weaponization of Karachi as the two important measures for saving the metropolis from further bloodshed. It was submitted in February 2010 and has been thrown into the dustbin implying the non-seriousness of the government to resolve this prime issue of national concern.
The investigation was ordered by Interior Minister Rehman Malik who instead of making it public, was later found attributing killings in Karachi to wives and girl friends of the dead. Although it has blamed political parties in general but named only the MQM as having an extraordinary militant wing tasked to create law and order situation to achieve its political ends.
A high-level committee headed by the interior ministry’s additional secretary drew representation from ISI, IB, Rangers, Sindh Police, Special Branch and National Crisis Management Cell. For the first time all the security agencies in Karachi have collectively pinpointed the problems and admitted that as many as 83 police officers involved in earlier operations against MQM have been eliminated in target killings, which has adversely affected the morale of police force.
A security expert said it is for the first time a comprehensive picture, and a blunt one, has been presented by the report but whether any action can be taken is a big question mark. Interior ministry’s senior officials confirmed to The News that the report was sent to the prime minister but no follow-up has been ordered to-date.
MQM’s parliamentary leader, Dr Farooq Sattar, rejected the party’s involvement in target killings when contacted in the past with reference to this report. As far the killings of police officers involved in Karachi operation, he said this issue needed separate treatment and a comparison should be drawn between the number of casualties the party suffered in that operation and the police killings later on.
The text of the report is being reproduced along with recommendations:
Subject: Report on Target killings in Karachi
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Minister for interior constituted a committee under the additional secretary, Ministry of Interior consisting of members from Sindh Police, Special Branch, IB, ISI and Rangers to identify target killings which took place during the last six months in Karachi and investigate into the circumstances with a view to find its solution.
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The committee invited affectees of target killings. The members of the committee assembled at NCMC office, Karachi and interviewed scores of affectees, interested groups and NGOs etc, home secretary, Sindh, DG Rangers, Sindh, IG Police Sindh, CCPO Karachi were also interviewed to assess the situation.
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Politically motivated target killing in Karachi appeared in 90’s when MQM Haqiqi parted its ways with MQM Altaf and continues to stall the landscape of Karachi with varying intensity to date. It is a turf war going on amongst political groups to have their say in the affairs of Karachi. MQM has won 17 out of 20 NA seats in Karachi and wants to keep its hold. ANP has for the first time won two provincial seats in Pakhtun dominated areas and wants to consolidate gains. Lyari Town with its Baloch population is a stronghold of PPP. Migration from Swat/Fata to Karachi is a cause of concern for the dominant ethnic group in Karachi. MQM is trying to expand its influence in Rehmanabad, Junejo Town, Khuda ki Basti, Gutter Bagheecha etc in non-Urdu speaking population by bringing in new settlement of Urdu speaking people in these areas. This is creating resentment in Pakhtuns and Balochs who feel that they will lose their electoral strength due to change in demography. New settlements also attract land mafia which further complicates the situation.
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Eighty-three police officers involved in earlier operations against MQM have been eliminated in target killing which has adversely affected the morale of police force.
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Political parties, specially the MQM, has its militant wing which at times is tasked to create law and order situation for achieving political ends.
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Following proposals are formulated by the committee to address the situation in Karachi:
a) Conference of all stakeholders in Karachi to work out code of ethics for mutual co-existence.
b) Formation of peace committee at provincial/zonal level headed by senior officers for identifying trouble spots in the respective areas and to address the issue before it flares up. Committees can be expanded to police station level.
c) Merit-based policing with institutional arrangements to insulate police from extraneous influence and its capacity building.
d) Media may be involved to highlight the suffering of families of the victims of target killing and to expose the elements involved in it.
e) Strict ban on conversion of amenity plots for residential purposes and removal of all illegal encroachments.
f) Registration of aliens.
g) De-weaponisation of Karachi.
While the MQM was singled out in the report for having militant wings which were used at times, Dr Farooq Sattar vehemently denied it.
Another MQM leader, who requested not to be named, termed the allegations against the party in the report as totally baseless and having no link with reality. He said efforts to blackmail MQM were made in every period. The successive governments, however, made alliances with the MQM that proved that the party had no role in killings, he asserted.
