[DAWN] A Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
-London (MQM-L) activist declared dead by the party and his family was presented alive at a Rangers presser on Thursday to 'expose the MQM-L's anti-state propaganda'.
Pakistain Rangers Sindh Spokesperson Maj Qambar Raza, speaking at the presser at Rangers Headquarters in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, said that the MQM-L on Aug 7 issued a blurb accusing the paramilitary force of kidnapping, torturing and killing the worker.
Maj Raza said that Mohammed Yusuf, alias Thelewala, of MQM-L Unit 125 in Qasbah Aligarh was, according to the party, kidnapped allegedly by the Rangers on July 17. Subsequently, Yusuf's body was allegedly found mutilated in Orangi Town's Hawa Goth the same day, according to the party.
The party alleged that Rangers personnel had tortured, extra-judicially killed, and later dumped Yusuf's body there. According to an MQM-L blurb, the Edhi centre buried his body on July 30 after it remained unclaimed, and the family had later identified him via a picture.
Maj Raza said: "The truth is that the law enforcers had conducted a raid on a construction firm in Gulshan-e-Zia of Orangi Town on July 17 for Mohammed Yusuf's arrest but he was not there."
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