Murder of Journalist, philanthropist condemned
KARACHI- All the political, religious and Jehadi organizations have vehemently condemned the assassination of a journalist and a philanthropist in two separate incidents and demanded that the government should arrest the killers at the earliest.
Secretary General Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Karachi in a statement termed the surge in target killings in the city, government’s failure. He said it’s a shame for government that the vicious killers enjoy free reign in the city. They can kill anybody at any given time and at any given place but government with the machinery to check them is playing a silent spectator’s role.
He demanded that government confesses its failure in maintaining law and order in the city and voluntarily tender its resignation.
After paying a visit to the bereaved family of assassinated journalist Asadullah, Amir Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Merajul Huda Siddiqi and other JI leaders, expressed deep grief and sorrow over the murder of journalist Asadullah and well-known philanthropist Anwer Naseem Chandna and paid tribute to both of them for their services for the society.
Amir Jl termed the recent wave of terrorism; a conspiracy aimed at disrupting the peace of city. He said his party would continue struggling for restoring the former grandeur of the city and once again make it a “city of lights”.
Muttaheda Qaumi Movement (MQM) Coordination Committee has also termed the surge in target killing; a conspiracy aimed at imposing a reign of terror on the citizens. The committee said it is a matter of concern that in the very midst of heavy contingents of police and paramilitary Rangers who are posted about the city at barely a kilometers distance, innocent people are being riddled with bullets.
The committee added that the sudden wave of terrorist activities is part of establishment’s alleged “Switch-off” policy and alleged that the government agencies themselves were behind the killings.
Demanding that President General Pervez Musharraf take immediate notice of target killings; the committee urged him to take concrete steps to safeguard the lives and properties of innocent citizens.
Leaders of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan (JUI), Maulana Abdul Karim Abid, Dr. Khalid Mahmood Soomro and others have termed the murder of innocent journalist and an elderly philanthropist, a slap across the face of military government by terrorists and said government has become helpless before the killers.
They said the Interior Minister should be conscious enough to tender his resignation on failing to maintaining peace in the country.
‘The government which fails in safeguarding lives and properties of citizens, has no right to continue governing them,” they added.
The government gives peace either to the citizens or resign, they demanded.
Source: Business Recorder
Date:9/3/2001
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