Bloody day: Three political workers among 10 shot dead

Bloody day: Three political workers among 10 shot dead Altaf Hussain Appeals Donation For Preparing For The Long March Being Held In Islamabad Inkeshaf* ASWJ-Karachi k ziada tar Karkunan ko MQM k area me Target kia gia.MQM me Shia dehshtgrd ghus k Sunni Nojwano ko Target krte he. Joint MQM, TMQ public gathering tomorrow ============= ‘Foreign nationals’: Petition filed to stop Qadri, Hussain By Our Correspondent Published: January 1, 2013 Petitioner has alleged that both ‘foreign funded’ political parties are trying to destabelise Pakistan. LAHORE: A petition has been filed in the Lahore registry of the Supreme Court, asking the court to stop Tahirul Qadri and Altaf Hussain from political activities in Pakistan because they are both “foreign nationals and unable to become members of parliament”. Watan Party chairman Zafarullah Khan has filed the petition, which names the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Pakistan Awami Tehrik as parties headed by foreign nationals. Hussain heads the former and is a UK national while the latter is headed by Qadri, a Canadian national. Khan says in the petition that they no longer have allegiance with Pakistan but are functioning on foreign dictates. The petitioner has said that Qadri is not a “sagacious, righteous and honest man” – the qualities that a man who wishes to be elected to public office should have as laid down by Article 62 of the Constitution. In 1990, Justice Akhtar Hassan Commission had found that Qadri had arranged an alleged murder attack on himself and had then accused the Punjab government of doing so, Khan has said in the petition. Qadri, the petition says, is now threatening to bring down a democratic set up. By doing so, he is violating Articles 6, 8, 9, 62, 17, and 67 of the constitution, says Khan. The petition states that Qadri has committed treason by “inciting” the army and “inviting” the judiciary to be part of the caretaker set up. The petition asks Qadri to denounce the foreign nationality and stop his “foreign-funded” NGO Minhajul Quran to prove his loyalty to Pakistan. He can then register his political party, submit its accounts and hold intra-party elections. Khan has alleged that both ‘foreign funded’ political parties were trying to destabelise Pakistan. Their efforts, he said, would delay the elections. Published in The Express Tribune, January 1st, 2013. =============== The last sun of the year 2012 has set in Pakistan along with many happy and bitter memories. The nation is looking toward the first sun-dawn of 2013 tomorrow with hopes and expectations. The last sun of 2012 set the earliest in Sialkot at 5:06 pm and set the last in Karachi at 5:52 pm. Many made special preparations to bade good-bye to the last sun of 2012. People went to Pir Sohawa and other mountainous areas in federal capital Islamabad to bade good bye to the last sun of 2012. In Karachi, the administration has closed the routes leading to the seashore. People are ready to welcome the new year 2013 at midnight tonight and there would be fireworks as usual. In twin cities of Islamabad-Rawalpindi police is being put on high alert to meet any unpleasant situation. Additional police contingents are posted ar markets and other places. Directives are being issued to police to stop youths from one-wheeling. ============= Updated : Monday December 31 , 2012 8:29:31 PM MQM and Tahreek Minhaj-ul-Quran would jointly organize a public gathering tomorrow at 3 pm at Jinnah Ground Azizabad. MQM chief Altaf Hussain and Chief of TMQ Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri would deliver an important and a thoughful speech to the participants of the public meeting. They would also make important decisions about the peoples long march on Islamabad jointly by the two parties on January 14. The preparations for the meeting by the MQM are underway with enthusiasm and final shape is being given to the dice and the stage at the vast Jinnah Ground. By Our Correspondent Published: January 1, 2013 A car that was burnt when two groups clashed in Saddar's Bazarta lines on Monday. PHOTO: RASHID AJMERI/EXPRESS KARACHI: Three political activists and a member of the Shia community were among 10 people killed as another violent year concluded. The situation turned ugly in Saddar’s Bazarta Line where the death of a political activist, Abdul Sattar, allegedly by the firing of a policeman sparked violence that led to the burning down of a building housing the office of a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader. Four men tried to snatch the official sub-machine gun from Khurram when he was walking home in Saddar police lines. “I only fired in self defence. If I hadn’t, they would have snatched my official gun and even killed me,” Khurram told The Express Tribune. “I don’t know somebody died or not. I also don’t know if the victim was one of the attackers or just a passerby.” Khurram is posted with the Security Zone police in Hassan Square. On his complaint, the Saddar police have registered a case against four suspects. Sattar was associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), said SHO Ghulam Nabi Wago, who was suspended following the riots. Suspects fired gunshots and set fire to two shops, four vehicles and also the office of PPP leader Imtiaz Khattak. The fire partially damaged the two-storey building. The riots spread to Sharae Faisal as a large number of women took to the streets. The protesters set fire to tyres and a tree, suspending traffic. “A short while before Sattar died, activists of MQM and PPP had a fight,” SHO Wago said. “While Sattar apparently died from Khurram’s firing, the activists thought he was gunned down by PPP activists.” Half a dozen suspects were detained by the police. A PPP worker, Nawazish Ali, was found dead shortly after Sattar’s death, DSP Malik Ehsan said. The victim was a close aide of Imtiaz Khattak and had been shot multiple times. Separately, an activist of MQM’s unit 143, Salahuddin Samad, 58, was shot dead in Buffer Zone. Bilal Baloch was found dead in Dhobi Ghat, Pak Colony police said. Meanwhile, a man belonging to the Shia sect, Jawad Hussain, 45, was gunned down in Orangi Town. Two men also shot and injured a prayer leader, Maulana Shaukat, in New Karachi. A milk shop owner, Mushtaq Rajput, 46, was shot dead and his nephew, Qasim, 25, was injured in Gizri. In Ayub Goth, a couple and two women were shot dead inside their house. Published in The Express Tribune, January 1st, 2013.