KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) on Friday has sought the registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against the Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and senior police officers over violent action against political workers outside the CM House.
MQM-P committee member Mehfooz Yar moved to the Civil Line police station and applied for the registration of FIR. It has been requested to register a case under the anti-terrorism act (ATA) against police baton-charge, tear gas shelling over the political activities outside CM House.
On January 27, MQM-P had announced to lodge a First Information Report (FIR) against Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah following the death of its worker.
MQM-P convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, while addressing a press conference at Bahadurabad headquarters, had said that a worker succumbed to wounds due to the police baton-charge and tear gas shells during the political party’s sit-in outside CM House.
Siddiqui had criticised that an ethnic party has seized powers of the metropolis on the basis of a fake census. He said that MQM-P will lodge the case against Sindh CM Murad Ali Shah under the anti-terrorism act (ATA) following the death of the worker.
Police had baton-charged Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) workers and fired tear gas to disperse the protesting activists outside the Chief Minister (CM) House in Karachi.
The MQM-P workers including women and children had been baton-charged by police officials in a sudden move to disperse the protestors outside the CM House. –Agencies
