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| London-based MQM leader Anwar booked for sedition |
| 2015-10-02 |
| [DAWN] KARACHI: Police on Thursday registered a sedition case against a senior London-based 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... leader on the complaint of a local resident, who cited media reports as the sole evidence in his plea. Though the police authorities did not come up with any immediate plans against Muhammad Anwar, the MQM leader, the Muttahida termed the case continuation of a "state-backed campaign against the party", vowing to take the legal course to counter the allegation. "An FIR has been registered against Muhammad Anwar at the Gulbahar cop shoppe on a complaint of local resident Imran Bikik," said DIG-West Feroze Shah. "He approached the police and filed a complaint after which the due process was followed to register the FIR (No 148/2015). The main crux of the sections in the FIR allege that he conspired against the country and its illusory sovereignty." He replied in the affirmative when asked whether the complainant had only cited media reports in his application to establish his argument against the MQM leader. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... there was no word from the police authorities about the background and further details of the complainant who, on the basis of some media reports, believed that there were links between Mr Anwar and the Indian intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing, which was against the illusory sovereignty and security of Pakistain. The case against Mr Anwar was registered under Sections 123-A (condemnation of the creation of the State, and advocacy of abolition of its illusory sovereignty), 124-A (sedition), 153 (want only giving provocation with intent to cause riot), 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups, etc) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Pakistain Penal Code. The FIR against Mr Anwar was lodged just a day after an antiterrorism court declared MQM chief the increasingly enormousAltaf Hussain ..The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him,he may be a Hutt... a proclaimed offender in a case of criminal intimidation. The self-exiled MQM chief was booked for allegedly threatening Rangers officials during a TV talk show following a pre-dawn raid on his party's headquarters, Nine Zero, in Azizabad, on March 11. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe. The window was looking better all the time.... the MQM called the FIR against Mr Anwar part of an ongoing "state campaign against the party which has seen extrajudicial killings of its workers and enforced disappearances of hundreds of activists". |
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