PCG: Really, this is getting more and more ridiculous. For those of you Taliban kay chamchay who were saying that the Taliban cannot possibly be in Karachi…please read below. There is another article in Dawn from a female reporter in Karachi reporting on a number of incidents where females and boutiques have been approached in broad daylight by men of religious background, being scolded or questioned on their clothing.
MQM condemns armed attack on Christian settlement
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
By our correspondent
Karachi
The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has condemned the armed attack on a Christian settlement in Taiser Town and has termed the violent episode as yet another concrete piece of evidence of “the threat of Talbanisation swiftly creeping into major urban centres of the country.”
In this connection, MQM leader Altaf Hussain telephoned Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik on Wednesday and apprised him of the details of the Taiser Town incident in which the Christian community faced armed violence and intimidation on the hands of “Taliban”, a statement issued by MQM said.
The MQM leader urged the interior adviser to take preventive measures on an emergency basis to ensure the safety and security of minorities including the Christian community. “The lives, honour, property, and places of worship of minorities should be given due protection against the rising activities of the armed lawless elements,” the MQM leader said.
Hussain also called for adopting a strict course of action against terrorists who are bent on sabotaging the peace and tranquillity of the city. Meanwhile, the MQM leader in his telephonic address from London to members of the Defence-Clifton Residents’ Committee and Youth Advisery Council said that the country was passing through a very critical stage of its existence.
He expressed serious concerns over the rampant activities of the Taliban who, after signing a so-called peace agreement in Swat, had expanded their armed militant activities for occupying adjoining areas of the NWFP and other parts of the country. He also expressed his dismay saying that leaders of key political and religious parties in the country had been keeping their silence and not showing any reaction to the rising threat of the Taliban and other extremists in the society.
He advised members of the Defence-Clifton Residents’ Committee and Youth Advisery Council to install a collective alarm system in their streets and areas of residents to keep a strict vigil on the activities of armed lawless elements.
MINORITIES’ AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: Meanwhile, addressing a press conference at the Kursheed Begum Hall on Wednesday, members of the Minorities’ Affairs Committee of the MQM have condemned the threat posed to the Christian community at Taiser Town.
They urged the government to take strict note of the Taiser Town violent incident and bring to book the armed elements who adopted threatening, insulting, and hostile posture against them and their places of worship.