[Reader-list] Call for judicial inquiry into political activists’ killing by police

Zulfiqar Shah shahzulf at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 14 20:44:23 IST 2009


Call for judicial inquiry into political activists’ killing by police 
 
Daily Dawn
 
HYDERABAD, June 12: The Joint Action Committee for People’s Rights, Sindh, on Friday condemned killing of political activists in Karachi and Hyderabad during protest against the influx of internally displaced persons (IDPs) into Sindh and demanded high-level judicial inquiry into the killings. 

The committee observed at a meeting that the reaction of the political activists against the influx was the reaction of the entire Sindhi nation. 

It said the people of Sindh had right to raise voice for their sovereignty guaranteed under the international charter of rights and the constitution of Pakistan. 

The action committee said it was highly regrettable that such inhuman atrocities were being committed by a party which had received 100 per cent votes of Sindhi people. 

That party had crossed all limits, it said. 

Police and Rangers could not have targeted the peaceful protesters in Jamshoro and Karachi without the orders of the home department, the meeting noted. 

Expressing surprise over a statement of the ministers concerned that they had not issued any such orders, the meeting urged the government to explain as to who was responsible for giving orders to kill peaceful protesters. 

The committee demanded a high-level judicial inquiry into the killings and an exemplary punishment to the perpetrators of the crime. 

Leaders of the action committee were of the considered opinion that the target killings of the political activists was linked with recent killings in Karachi. 

Basic purpose of those killings was to sabotage the political process and movements emerging in Sindh, the meeting said. 

Supporting reaction of the people of Sindh to the influx of IDPs, it demanded that according to international practices, the federal government should confine the displaced persons to the camps.However, the committee said the civil society of Sindh would contribute their share to ameliorate IDPs condition. 

The Sindh government was spending Rs30 billion per year on Rangers, but the law enforcement agency was “involved in the killings of political activists in Jamshoro and Karachiit said. 

The action committee said Rangers had failed to eliminate terrorism in the urban areas and resolve tribal disputes, and control robberies and lawlessness in upper Sindh. 

The meeting demanded deployment of Rangers to protect the borders and more attention to training, discipline and salaries of the Sindh police. 

The action committee announced holding a demonstration in Hyderabad on Saturday against the killings of political activists and also to convene an APC on that issue. 

People attending the meeting included Zulfiqar Shah, Punhal Sario, Mustafa Baloch, Zain Daudpoto and Ghaffar Malik. 

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