Summary SSP Malir Rao Anwar presented a terrorist who claimed to have been MQM worker, trained by RAW
LAHORE: (Web Desk) – SSP Malir Rao Anwar on Thursday held a press conference in which he presented a self-confessed terrorist who confessed that he was a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) worker and had been trained in India by Indian intelligence agency RAW for carrying out terrorist activities in Karachi, reported Dunya News.
Resultantly, MQM also held a press conference, rubbishing all the allegations hurled at them by Rao Anwar and the terrorist he presented. MQM leader Wasey Jalil said that the accusations leveled at MQM by Rao Anwar were baseless and politically motivated.
Twitter was abuzz with the news and analysis almost immediately as the police officer called for banning MQM. It is unprecedented that a police officer holds press conference and asks for banning a political party in the country. While some believed that statements coming from a police officer were quite strong and deserved to be looked at seriously, there were others who said that Rao Anwar was doing it on the orders of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership, to which Rao Anwar is considered close.
There were some who said that since the self-confessed terrorists presented by Rao Anwar had claimed to be MQM workers, there was no question of him telling a lie..
#MQMIsWingOfRAW Rao Anwar proved via workers of MQM itself. #BanMQM
— saifooo (@Saify92) April 30, 2015
Others said that the press conference was so clumsy that it seemed like a deliberate attempt by Rao Anwar of sabotaging the operation in Karachi.
@ShezrehMirza I Think Rao Anwar is following Both PPP/ MQM leaders instruction to do a nonsense preser and sabotage Operation @NasimZehra
— AlBakistani (@CricFan07) April 30, 2015
However, Wasey Jalil was in no mood to give this presser any currency at all.
On today s press con by Rao Anwar I can only comment Hahahahahahaha #RaoAnwarKayJhoot #Karachi #Pakistan #MediaTrialAgainstMQM only
— Wasay Jalil (@WasayJalil) April 30, 2015
Hasan Zaidi said that Rao Anwar was a popular character of 1990s Karachi operation. He said that this press conference looked like coming straight from 1990s.
Rao Anwar - a name one knows so well from the 1990s op against MQM - holds a presscon straight out of the 1990s.
— Hasan Zaidi (@hyzaidi) April 30, 2015
Some said it was to spoil MQM s resurgence after victories in Cantonment Local Body polls and NA-246 by-election. But they were unsure about who did it so left that part unsaid.
Mqm after winning NA246 and cantonment Election was again getting popularity and demanded Karachi province so Rao Anwar drama is staged by..
— syed akhlaq Hussain (@dashtetanhai) April 30, 2015
But there were others who seemed more convinced that it was by PPP and the objective was to counter MQM s demand for a new province in Sindh.
Mqm after winning NA246 and cantonment Election was again getting popularity and demanded Karachi province so Rao Anwar drama is staged by..
— syed akhlaq Hussain (@dashtetanhai) April 30, 2015
Some simply said that Rao Anwar had no credibility whatsoever to be holding such a press conference, let alone legal authority.
There are 3 Cases on going in Sindh HC against SSP Rao Anwar in Fake Encounter, Extra Judicial Killing and Land Grabbing #RaoAnwarKeJhoot
— Shahrukh Azeem (@sharookaxeem) April 30, 2015
Talat Aslam said that this move was bound to prove counter-productive.
The Rao Anwar presser is a masterclass in how to achieve exactly the opposite of what you want. Can we never learn from our past blunders?
— Talat Aslam (@titojourno) April 30, 2015
But, as always, there was humor. Samee Chaudhry believed that it was nothing short of a good film .
Yet, we should appreciate Rao Anwar as he tried his best today for the #RevivalOfPakCinema
— Samee Chaudhry (@SameeChaudhry1) April 30, 2015
