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Altaf demands registration
of murder cases against Nawaz

By our correspondent

KARACHI: The Chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Altaf Hussain, on Thursday demanded of the Chief of Army Staff, General Pervez Musharraf, filing of murder cases against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, former IGP, Sindh, and DIG, Karachi, for killing innocent people extra-judicially.

He was addressing a meeting of the party's Coordination Committee at Nine-Zero on telephone from London. Altaf Hussain said that by disallowing the commercial flight, carrying the COAS home, from landing at Pakistani airports, Nawaz Sharif endangered the lives of innocent people. Therefore, case in this regard be registered against the deposed prime minister.

Recalling the Hakim Said murder case, Altaf Hussain said that Nawaz Sharif, former IGP Rana Maqbool, and DIG Farooq Amin implicated Muttahida activists in the case. He said that despite all-out efforts made by the family of Amirullah, justice was not done and Amirullah and other Muttahida activists were awarded death sentence in that case. He further said that innocent Fasih Jugnoo and an innocent travel agent Mubashir were

Extra-judicially murdered while in police custody in connection with the Hakim Said murder case investigation. The Muttahida chief asked the party leaders and lawyers to prepare cases in respect of all atrocities carried out against the party workers and supporters and leave no stone unturned in this connection.

Altaf Hussain also urged the European countries and members of Commonwealth to keep in view the misdeeds of the Sharif government while monitoring the prevailing political situation of Pakistan.

Meanwhile, the Muttahida MNAs, while commenting on the disclosure of transferring most secret information to enemies by Nawaz Sharif, have said that the people of the country have now come to believe as to who was the real and greatest traitor of Pakistan, who betrayed the defense of the country.

In a joint statement issued on Thursday, they lashed out at some of the lawyers of the Punjab "who used the Lahore High Court Bar Association platform to levy fabricated and concocted charges on Altaf Hussain of being a traitor, besides spending huge amount from the national exchequer to launch propaganda against MQM leader to discredit him in the eyes of the people".

They said that today the people of the country and the whole world at large have now come to know the real face of Nawaz Sharif who claimed himself as patriot. The deposed prime minister, by disclosing the most secret and classified defense information to the enemies, had endangered the entire defense system of the country, they added.

Meanwhile, the Muttahida Coordination Committee has demanded that real culprits involving Muttahida activists in the conspiracy of Hakim Muhammad Said murder case be arrested and put for trial in the court. In a statement, the committee also demanded that all those arrested in Hakim Said murder case be released.