Qazi-MaMA is at it again. This time he suggests destroying his opponents in Sindh. Is he asking army to get this job done? if so, Our political process (or whatever is left of it) goes out of the window-less hojra (small and darkened room in a Mad-house-russah)?
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\06\25\story_25-6-2006_pg1_1
Arrest Altaf, dismiss Sindh govt: APC
[** Qazi says MQM ‘biggest land mafia in country’
By Zulfiqar Ghuman *
ISLAMABAD: The opposition parties on Saturday demanded that the government bring Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain back to the country through Interpol, and dismiss the Sindh government and Sindh governor to restore peace to Karachi.
The opposition parties made these demands in joint resolutions at the conclusion of the All Parties Karachi Peace Conference organised by Jamaat-e-Islamai here. The conference was attended by almost all opposition parties including the PPPP, PML-N and JUI-F, as well as writers and intellectuals.
JI chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed, briefing the media on the conference, accused the Musharraf regime of patronising the MQM. “The Musharraf regime supported (the MQM) in 2002 general elections and then in 2005 local government elections, putting law enforcement agencies at the disposal of the MQM,” he alleged.
Ahmed said that every citizen of Karachi felt unsafe under the MQM. “The MQM is extorting money from shopkeepers, industrialists and traders by force,” he said.
He said the MQM’s rise was down to previous and current military regimes, especially General Pervez Musharraf. “Some 2,500 people including students, ulema, politicians and journalists have been killed during the last four years out of which 654, including known scholars like Mufti Shamzai, Hafiz Taqi and Mufti Attiqur Rehamn, were victims of targeted killings,” he said.
Ahmed said the government had unsuccessfully tried to portray these murders as sectarian killings. “Not only politicians, but even personnel of law enforcement agencies, especially those who were party to the Karachi operation, are being killed in targeted killings,” he claimed.
The APC, he said, also demanded the government make public investigation reports into the Nishtar Park blast, end the “no go areas” in the city, and let all parties continue political activities in the country without fear or restrictions.
The JI chief alleged that the MQM’s Sindh government, “in which Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim is no more than a puppet”, had become “the biggest land mafia in the county” and was ousting people from slums in connivance with land developers.
To a question about a proposed joint anti-government, Ahmed said that the opposition parties were holding meetings to evolve a joint strategy. The MMA would meet the day after tomorrow and the ARD was scheduled to meet on July 2.
Earlier, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman told the APC he supported the idea of collective opposition resignations from the parliament.
Rehman criticised the US and the West for their “aggressive policies” towards Muslims. He also urged the government to look for negotiated settlements of all internal problems instead of using force.
Mian Raza Rabbani, the leader of the opposition in the Senate, said that there was a “complete breakdown” of law and order in Karachi. “People are being forced to close down their businesses early in the evening resulting in losses to the people as well as the economy,” he said.
Abdul Rauf Mengal of the Balochistan National Party said that the army was repeating the mistakes of the past in its operations in the tribal areas and Balochistan.
Meanwhile, the MMA also launched a “fact-sheet” about crime in Karachi for the year 2005, according to which 767 people including 37 policemen were murdered in the year. “Another 748 cases of attempted murder, 386 cases of violence against police, 3823 dacoities and thefts were registered and 481 arms caches were recovered during the year,” it added.](“http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/images/2006/06/25/20060625_01.jpg”)
