From Zeeshan Mirza
KARACHI: Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has said that those imposing governments, have forced fear over the city of Karachi.
“Karachiites’ are passing their lives under the shadow of fear and intimidation”, Jamaat Islami’s Ameer has said in a statement.
He said, in last five months of the year, 78 citizens have been killed while resisting robbery. “In other cities people killed like this in street crimes,” Hafiz Naeem questioned.JI chief said that “criminal elements have been installed pre-planned”.
“They could not provide education and jobs”. The doors of government departments’ have already been closed, when parents educate their children with their own expenses, they are murdered only for a mobile phone,” Hafiz Naeem said.
JI Ameer said that mafias have been imposed at every place, the government stepping aside from its responsibilities.
Earlier. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) started talks to join hands against the Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) Sindh government.
The opposition Leader in the Sindh Assembly belonging to the MQM-P Ali Khurshidi and JI’s Parliamen-tary Leader MPA Muhammad Farooq held a meeting ahead of the provincial budget.
Sources privy to the development said that both the leader discussed strategy for the upcoming budget session.
Both parties ‘agreed’ to form a working relationship to ensure the welfare of the peo-ple of Sindh and to pressurise the Sindh government to prioritize their needs.
The opposition leader said that the Sindh government has failed to protect the youth of Karachi as street crimes are on the rise and the people are being gunned down for offering resistance to robbers.
“The Sindh government has to be pressurised to complete the Safe City project which is essential for the establishment of peace and security in the province particularly Karachi,” the sources said while quoting the MQM-P and JI leaders.
It is pertinent to mention here that this is the first official meeting between the two parties after a while as they remained arch-rivals in Karachi, criticising each other in the past.
The last time MQM-P and JI held an meeting on a political matter, they discussed fresh delimitations in Karachi; however, the discussions ended up being “inconclusive.”
