Pak will share altaf evidence with uk
The apology from Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain for his “anti-Pakistan remarks and slogans” and subsequent damage-control moves by the local leadership of the party do not seem to be working for the party as the authorities continued to round up key MQM men and seal its offices with some of them even bulldozed this week. While a few key offices of the party were razed down, a total 196 officers were sealed by late on Friday.
In a related development in London, the British parliamentarians of Pakistan origin approached their government for action against the party because it was using “British soil against Pakistan”.
The arrests included the party’s Member of National Assembly (MNA) Asif Hasnain and Sindh Assembly member Shiraz Waheed.
Though there was no word from law enforcement agencies on the development, police sources confirmed the move and the MQM in a statement expressed concern over the action against the elected representatives.
“The details of cases against the two (legislators) would be shared with you people very soon,” said a senior police officer in a brief response to Dawn while con- firming the arrests.
The MQM statement condemned the arrests and called it violation of the law. “The MQM is a patriotic and democratic party. But still its MNA Asif Hasnain and MPA Shiraz Waheed were arrested in false cases.
It’s against the spirit of the Constitution and law of the land. The people of Karachi are justified in feeling that they are pushed against the wall,” it regretted.
On the other hand, law enforcement agencies led by Rangers continued to seal MQM’s unit and sector offices in different areas of Karachi as well as other parts of Sindh. The party offices in Federal B. Area, Liaquatabad, PECHS, Gulshani-Iqbal, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Nazimabad and North Nazimabad were sealed in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The local administration also sprang into action and demolished the party’s unit offices in Mosamiyat, Bhains Colony, Tariq Bin Zaiyad Society, Gulshan-i-Maymar and Shah Faisal Colony on the plea that they were raised on “encroached pieces of land”.
The action followed a directive by the Sindh chief minister for removing all encroachments in the city.
Taking a policy decision to resolve the issue of traffic congestion in the city, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah directed the Karachi administration to open closed parking areas of commercial buildings and shopping plazas within 10 days and also remove illegal parking and encroachments from important roads and areas, said a CM House state- ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government will share evidence of MQM chief Altaf Hussain inciting violence in Pakistan with British police next week, an official said. “We are gathering pieces of evidence and will send the details to the United Kingdom, seeking action against him,” the official told the Dawn. He said that concrete evidence was available to prove that Hussain had asked his workers to ransack media houses not broadcasting his speech. ment issued after a meeting presided over by the Chief Minister earlier in the day.
According to an official, the decision to demolish the MQM offices built on state land and amenity plots was taken during a meeting between Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Chief Minister Shah on Wednesday. Besides, he said, the provincial and federal governments had also decid-