| Submit your comments on this article |
| India-Pakistan |
| Crackdown on Muttahida Quami movement |
| 2002-05-04 |
| The police on Friday night raided homes of several leaders and workers of Muttahida Quami Movement and arrested scores of them. The LEAs raided the house of Dr Farooq Sattar, and arrested his coordinator, Zubair. They also raided the home of Shoaib Akhter and when they did not find him, they took away with them his brother, Amin Akhter. That's a habit the Pak cops have. If they can't find the perp, the arrest a relative and then beat him or her until the suspect arrives to take his/her place. The police also raided the Muttahida sector offices in Rizvia and took away records of the party. The police picked up sector chief Mehboob Alam and workers, Nadeem Ansari, Shahid Noor, Arshad and Safdar. A TT pistol was shown as recovery from each of them. All those arrested were out on bail in other cases. "Well, by Gawd, they'll pay higher bail this time!" The police stormed into the house of sector chief of Gulshan-i-Iqbal Arshad Sabzwari and returned disappointed as he was not in his home. House of one Anjum in the same vicinity was raided but he too was not at home. Cases have been registered against both of them for breach of peace on the day of strike. Guess there weren't any relatives around to arrest. Dozens of Muttahida activists were picked up in night-long raids in different parts of the city. A police mobile in Al-Falah area was fired upon late last night in which a cop, Basheer suffered a bullet wound. And that really cheesed them off... According to police, various police teams of Investigation Branch, on Friday arrested 25 persons from the city on charges of violence and causing damage to properties. Probably a bad idea to stage riots and bombings when the dictator's just won a referendum with over 90 percent of the vote. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |