Salahuddin's daughter saves many from the gallows through "mock trial" by the military courts in Karachi

Karachi: January 8, 1998

You may recall that the former owner and the Editor of "Takbeer", a Weekly published in Karachi was brutally murdered in Karachi on 4^th. December 1994.

The successive Governments and the Federal Intelligence Agencies implicated the MQM in this murder, according to their conspiracies and designs under their "Three Pronged Strategy" of Isolation, Criminalisation and Demoralisation of the MQM leaders, office bearers, workers, supporters and their relatives in particular and the Mohajir Nation in general.

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) denied all the Government allegations and re-iterates that it never believed in the politics of violence, it does not believe in the politics of violence and it will never believe in the politics of violence. Irrespective of the MQM denials, the Governments and its Intelligence Agencies persisted with their sustained propaganda against the MQM incriminating it in the gory murder of Mr Salahuddin. The Government even distributed printed materials to the Parliamentarians, world over, including Senators and Members of the Congress. It distributed its propaganda materials during the Sessions of the U N Commission and Sub-Commission of Human Rights in Geneva.

Ever since the murder of Mr Salahuddin, hundreds of MQM workers and their relatives have been unlawfully arrested, brutally tortured and kept in incommunicado in the State prisons.

Scores of MQM leaders, workers and their relatives have been arrested, even recently and their cases sent to the Military Courts, established with the sole view to hang the MQM workers party. Undoubtedly, the Military Courts would have sent the poor innocent victims to the gallows through their "Mock Trial" as precedent set in their trials miscarrying the justice.

But the disclosure made by no less than the daughter of the slained editor Mr Salahuddin unravelling the murderer of her father and coercion exercised by the Government will most definitely prove to be blessings in disguise for the MQM workers, who, hopefully be now saved from being sent to the gallows and be set free. It will also expose the designs of the successive Governments against the MQM. We are enclosing the clipping of the daily "Dawn" covering the disclosure by his daughter, Saadia.

Similarly, time will prove that the MQM is truly the only democratic party in Pakistan and an alternative to the corrupt feudal rule that has been prevalent in Pakistan since its inception. Time will also exonerate the MQM of all accusations and charges levelled against it by the successive governments and the Intelligence Agencies.