PRO-TALIBAN ALLIANCE OF EXTREMIST RELIGIOUS PARTY MUTTAHIDA MAJLIS-E-AMAL (MMA), JAMAT-E-ISLAMI BEING ITS COMPONENT AND SUPPORTED BY THE PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY (PPP) OBSERVING A DAY OF TERROR IN KARACHI ON 14 MAY 2004
REPORTS OF TERRORISM OF THE ALLIANCE OF PRO-TALIBAN EXTREMIST PARTIES MMA, JAMAT-E-ISLAMI BEING ITS COMPONENT AND PPP
NORTH-NAZIMABAD:
MMA terrorists
attacked the MQM worker Mohammad Mustafa of Block N, Unit 173, Sector North
Nazimabad and his motorbike was smashed.
Armed
MMA terrorists roaming in Block Q, fired automatic weapons to forcefully close
the shops on gun point and continually burnt tyres and resorted to firing to
intimidate the residents and the shopkeepers and traders as well as to block
roads generally and particularly in KDA block of flats.
MALIR:
Eyewitness
claimed that the MMA and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) armed terrorists’ are
threatening local residents and forcing them to shut their businesses on
gunpoint. The PPP terrorists are seen firing from their automated weapons mainly
AK-47 and G-3 rifles while some of the terrorists of both parties have been seen
rampaging the streets with Light Machine Guns (LMGs).
QASBA
AND ALI GARH COLONIES:
MMA terrorists
are attacking houses of MQM supporters by pelting stones and bricks.
They are also intensely firing in the neighbourhoods and the people are
harassed and intimidated. The
neighbourhood of Banaras Colony is also totally shut down and no one can pass
through the “K” area as the
terrorists are firing on every moving vehicle.
GULISTAN-E-JOHAR:
Armed
terrorists of MMA are roaming the streets with impunity and forcing shopkeepers
to close their shops on gunpoint.
DEFENCE-CLIFTON:
In Gizri are
MMA armed terrorists forced the traffic to divert by intense firing and pelting
stones and bricks at all moving vehicles. They are also attacking shops and
houses of the supporters of MQM by pelting stones, bricks and petrol bombs.
AZIZABAD:
A band of MMA
terrorists numbering over 20 laden with sophisticated and automated weapons are
rampaging in Block-15 Al-Shafi destroying all MQM Banners, Mascot and flags on
gunpoint. The residents of the area are totally terrified as a result of
unchecked terrorism.
GULBERG:
Gun wielding
MMA terrorists forced the shopkeepers to close their shops on gunpoint, they
continually resorted to indiscriminate firings to intimidate and harass the
residents and traders.
LANDHI:
The MMA
gun-tottering Jihadis and extremists’ ran-amok and blocked road by burning
tyres. Fired upon MQM workers near Masjid-e-Khizra in Unit 89, Sector Landhi.
KORANGI:
Shops have
been forced shut and there are reports of disturbances on Kala Pul area in
Karachi.
BALDIA
TOWN:
MMA terrorists
have blocked the entire area. Rasheedabad
is also shut down. Armed MMA terrorists are roaming the area and harassing the
MQM supporters. In Rasheedabad MMA
Mullahs vowed in Masjid-e-Aqsa to target MQM worker Gulzar Khan Khatak and his
family members in particular and generally members of all household who
supported the MQM in the by-elections. This is a Pushtun neighbourhood. The Hub
River Road is also affected where dozens of heavily armed terrorists belonging
to Punjabi-Pushtun Ittehad (PPI) have besieged the road and not allowing coaches
to leave for Quetta. The terrorists have made the passengers of about 20 coaches
hostage while the para-military rangers are present watching the act of
terrorism.
LYARI:
MMA terrorists
who are running riot forcing the shopkeepers and traders to shut down their
shops and intimidating the residents of Lyari have ransacked the MQM Unit Office
no.19.
PAK
COLONY:
Reports of
firing by MMA terrorists received. Sher Shah Colony and SITE areas are affected.
The terrorists of MMA are burning factories and warehouse through intense
firing, burning tyres and throwing petrol bombs.
DESPITE
THE TERRORISM, THE STRIKE MISERABLY FAILED IN KARACHI.