TERRORIST ACTIVITIES OF WADERAS, FEUDALS, PPP, JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI AND POLICE PERSONNEL TO HARASS THE PEACEFUL CITIZENS DURING THE BY-ELECTIONS OF LOCAL BODIES IN SINDH
Karachi – 28 March 2004
During the local bodies by-elections, the terrorists of Jamaat-e-Islami’s
Thunder Squad continued to terrorise the citizens of Karachi and targeted a Haq
Parast candidate and other MQM workers. As a result of indiscriminate
firing by these terrorists, the Haq Parast candidate for minority seat and other
MQM workers were seriously injured including MQM worker Akmal Idrees in Pahlwan
Goth Sikander Village at Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Karachi. He has been admitted
in Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where his condition is still in danger. These
terrorists also attacked the house of Hidayat Masih, the Haq Parast candidate
for minority seat in the same area; and burnt his house. They forcibly
confined him in a poling station and also tortured him. In Ranchore Line
Area of Karachi, Shajar Ali Hoti (brother of former Senator Bostan Ali Hoti) and
other members of Hoti family armed with latest weapons, terrorised the citizens
and resorted to heavy firing so as to keep the MQM voters away from the polling
stations.
Meanwhile, in other parts of interior Sindh, the terrorists of Peoples Party,
local waderas and feudals, targeted and injured several MQM office bearers,
workers and supporters including Mumtaz Hameed, Advisor to Chief Minister Sindh.
According to details, a gang of 150 attacked the election camp of Haq Parast
candidate from UC Jacobabad City and ransacked it. As a result Provincial
Advisor Mumtaz Hameed, Member MQM Interior Sindh Tanzeemi Committee Nisar
Pahnwar and other workers were injured. The armed group was led by Fida
Hussain Jilani, Custom Officer Aziz Ubro and Mohammad Bukhsh Soomro. In
Jacobabad, TPO Ghulam Subhani and area SHO are leading the terrorists of Mizari
Tribe who are terrorising the area residents at gunpoint to vote in favour of
their candidate. The terrorists of PPP led by SHO Mehar attacked the
polling camp of Haq Parast candidate and also cast bogus votes. In Ronti
Ubaro, Ghotki, the area SHO Ayub Junejo and other police personnel on the
instruction of local wadera Asghar Shah occupied the polling station and
harassed the Haq Parast voters, attacked the home and camp of Haq Parast
candidate and brutally tortured the MQM workers present. In Dadu, police
personnel led by TPO Islam Rajput harassed the Haq Parast voters to keep them
away from the polling stations. In various other areas of Dadu District,
people of Jatoi Tribe led by MPA Sadaqat Jatoi of Sindh Assembly, harassed the
MQM workers and area residents and pressurised them to vote in favour of their
candidate. In Mirpur Sakro, armed terrorists of Jatoi Tribe brutally
tortured the MQM workers and supporters in UC Belo and threw the Haq Parast
candidate out of the polling station at gunpoint. In UC Radhan Dadu
District, ASI Ayub Pahnwar and ASI Bakhshal Mallah, under the supervision of MPA
Sadaqat Jatoi, occupied the polling station and threw out the polling agent for
Haq Parast candidate. In Jhangshahi, terrorists of PPP led by waderas of
Shirazi Tribe occupied the women polling booths and cast bogus votes. In
UC2 Dadu District, police personnel led by ASI Ashraf Shahani harassed the
polling agents. These police personnel brutally tortured the polling
agents of Haq Parast candidates and threw them out. In UC Thari Mohabbat,
armed terrorists of Jatoi Tribe harassed the voters of Haq Parast candidates and
were involved in bogus voting. In UC Bleedani, polling agents of Haq
Parast candidates were thrown out and the polling station occupied.