PPP successful in redirecting the operation towards MQM
13-09-2013
Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had given a statement a few days back that peace had been restored to Karachi and there had been no targeted-killing in the city for the past 24 hours.
Soon after some hours of his statement, all hell broke loose in Karachi and 8 to 10 people were killed within a span of 24 hours. All of these killings were in the areas which were MQM strongholds. Then two policemen were killed and MQM’s ex-MPA, Nadeem Hashmi was arrested and an immediate FIR was launched against him.
This created the atmosphere of a strike in Karachi and some cars were torched. When the victims got to the Police stations to register FIRs against the unidentified men, the Police registered all the FIRs against MQM workers who had already been arrested the night before all of these things even started to happen. People who were registering FIRs were astonished as to how quickly the Police knew about the people how had torched their vehicles and had even arrested them.
This was the plan that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had devised under its top-leadership after Nisar’s statement to show to the federal authorities that situation was not under control and that a more severe action was needed in the city to curb the violence.
This was so that an atmosphere for a redirected operation towards MQM could be created and an excuse could be found to arrest its workers and leaders.
XReports’ representative was told by a High Police official, who asked his name to be kept anonymous that this all was planned by PPP with co-operation from some intelligence agencies and orders directly came from their provincial leadership.
