Operation targeting 'innocent MQM workers': Haider Abbas

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Haider Abbas Rizvi Sunday reiterated that ‘innocent’ workers of his party were being taken into custody in the ongoing crackdown on the criminal elements in the metropolis.

Addressing a press conference here at MQM headquarters Nine Zero, Rizvi renewed his party’s demand that the Federal Interior Minister form a committee to monitor the operation in accordance with his promise.

He said that an MQM worker, Dilshad Ahmed, was rounded up on October 23 and latter handed him over to his brother on October 25 in what he described as a critical health condition. “This is the reason why Altaf Hussain had demanded an army operation in Karachi,” he added.

Haider Abbas Rizvi questioned the human rights organizations if they are not going to raise their voice against the operation, which, according to him, was targeting the innocents.

He appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take notice of what he termed the killing of Dilshad Ahmed and added that steps be taken for ‘the recovery of the missing MQM workers’.