Summary PPP leader assures MQM chief that action will be taken against officials involved in illegal acts.
KARACHI: Former President Asif Ali Zardari telephoned Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Tuesday.
The MQM chief informed the PPP leader about the incidents of law enforcement agencies torture on detained workers. He said that 45 activists of MQM were missing after their detention.
The former president assured that Altaf that he would direct Sindh CM to take action against the officials involved in torturing the MQM workers. Asif Ali Zardari urged the need for joint struggle for the progress and prosperity in the province.
Earlier, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) gave a 24-hour ultimatum to the government to recover missing party workers.
Addressing media personnel on Tuesday, MQM member Wasim Akhtar said that some police officers are openly conducting state terrorism and that citizens are fed up of carrying dead bodies every day.
Raabta committee member Ameen ul Haq said that there will be ‘damadam mast qalandar’ if workers not recovered within 24 hours. Meanwhile, funeral prayers of MQM’s worker Adil was offered in Karachi.
It is pertinent to mention here that MQM Chief Altaf Hussain on Sunday pleaded to the Army Chief General Raheel Sharif for justice for MQM and ‘migrant populace’ saying that the Army is responsible not only for defending land but also its inhabitants.
He had alleged that the former president Asif Ali Zardari didn’t respond upon contacting repeatedly. State institutions are subjecting MQM workers to the ‘third degree’ torture, he said while pleading the chief justice to take notice of extrajudicial killings of party workers.
MQM Chief also claimed that police, rangers and other law enforcing institutions are involved in killing party workers. Police cannot torture party workers without consent of Sindh government, he added.
