MQM CALLS FOR PEACEFUL STRIKE TO PROTEST AGAINST THE ATROCITIES AND TYRANT ACTS OF THE PRESENT MILITARY GOVERNMENT

 

Karachi – 26 February 2000

 

The MQM Co-ordination Committee has appealed to the people of Sindh to observe the peaceful strike call of 28 February 2000, to protest against the oppressive and tyrant acts of the present Military Government.  The Co-ordination Committee has appealed to the traders, businessmen and shop owners to keep their businesses and shops closed on 28 February 2000, to register their strong protest and condemnation over the highhandedness of the present Military Government.

 

MQM Co-ordination Committee said that the manner in which Dr Farooq Sattar, Member of MQM Co-ordination Committee, Parliamentary Leader of the MQM in the suspended Sindh Assembly and Former Mayor of Karachi, has been shifted to Attock Fort in North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, is highly deplorable.  The present Military Government in total disregard to the judiciary have unconstitutionally and illegally shifted Dr Farooq Sattar to Attock from Karachi, where he is being in kept in a dungeon (measuring seven square feet) under the constant vigilance of Army.  The Co-ordination Committee further said that a so-called court has been established to try Dr Farooq Sattar inside the Attock Fort.  The Co-ordination Committee while strongly condemning and deploring this act of the present Government has termed this as totally disregard to the Constitution of country and the violation of the right to defend of Dr Farooq Sattar.

 

Moreover, the Co-ordination Committee also condemned the act of forcible expulsion of thousands of Mohajir and Sindhi employees from Pakistan Steel Mills and other government and semi government organisations.  As a result, the families of those effected by forceful and unwarranted expulsion have been left destitute.  Those who were forcefully and illegally expelled were not even given a show cause notice and were dismissed without any reason which tantamount to worst form of discrimination and bigotry.

 

The MQM Co-ordination Committee has appealed to all the citizens of the province of Sindh, southern Pakistan, to keep their shops and businesses closed to observe the peaceful protest strike against the illegal, unconstitutional, anti-Sindh and other discriminatory acts of the present Military Government on 28 February 2000.  They also appealed to the citizens of Sindh to show through the peaceful strike that the people of Sindh are united and will not remain silent over any discriminatory or tyrannical act of the present Military Government against their province.

 

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Joint Press Conference of MQM and JSQM for the immediate release of Dr Farooq Sattar
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