KARACHI, Pakistan: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has announced to hold countrywide protests over the killing of its office-bearer in Sialkot while the party Chief Altaf Hussain has suspended the Rabita Committees in London and Karachi.
Bao Muhammad Anwar, the MQM’s district vice president, was killed when three unidentified men on motorcycles opened fire on him in Punjab’s Sialkot district on Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, the MQM Chief Altaf Hussain has also suspended the Rabita Committees in London and Karachi.
The media reports said that Qamar Mansoor has been appointed as the acting Rabita Committee chief in Pakistan while Arshad Hussain has been appointed as the acting chief of London Rabita Committee.
“I appeal to the workers to hold protest demonstrations and decide about the routes of the processions and venues of demonstrations on their own. Protest demonstrations should be held throughout Pakistan besides Karachi even in ten people take part in it,” the MQM chief said.
In a statement, the MQM chief said that his party reserved the right to protest if the federal government and the Punjab government did not take notice of the killing of vice president of MQM in Sialkot.
Hussain warned that the entire country would be rocked with protest demonstrations if the people showed their emotions on this injustice.
“The federal government and the Punjab government would be responsible for the outpouring of public emotions,” he said.
The MQM chief demanded the federal and the provincial governments to ensure that the killers of Bao Muhammad Anwar are arrested immediately failing which people across the country will lodge strong protest against this brutal killing.
