Altaf demands Karachi be given under army control

LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief, Altaf Hussain Tuesday urged upon the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to hand over control of Karachi to the army, as the provincial government had totally failed to maintain law and order in the city.

Altaf Hussain said that the Lyari gang war terrorists have been attacking the Kachi localities since Monday with rockets and most modern weapons, while the Sindh government, Karachi administration, police and other law enforcing agencies have failed to come to the rescue of the targeted Kachi community and, as a result, several people have thus far been killed and women amid dozens injured.

The persecuted members of the Kachi community took shelter away from their homes in interior Sindh and on the assurance of the Karachi Commissioner to provide them security returned to their homes on Monday. Altaf said these people were left unprotected and at the mercy of Lyari gang war terrorists who attacked them.

Altaf strongly condemned the attack on the Kachi community asked the Sindh chief minister, where is the Sindh government? Why have the police and law enforcing agencies disappeared from the restive areas of Lyari Town and what is the fault of the innocent and poor people of the Kachi community for which they are so cruelly being left at the mercy of the killers of Lyari gang war?

Altaf Hussain appealed to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to hand over the control of Karachi administration to the army in a bid to rescue the people of city including the trading community and industrialists from the Lyari gang war terrorists and extortionists.