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Well Mr. MSS. It not the first time the MQM openly harassed the media persons. Just watch the video footage of Dunya TV of few years ago and see how Mustafa Kamal is behaving with the poor reporter of a radio station. If Media owners are silent, why PFUJ not raised the issue? May be because of MQM grants to journalist bodies.
Syed Mustafa Kamal addressed a press conference held here to air the party's reply against the grave allegations leveled by Dr. Mirza on August 28 against MQM and its Chief Altaf Hussain.
The former Karachi mayor, Syed Mustafa Kamal said a conspiracy was being hatched against the MQM which is aimed mainly at character assassination of MQM and its Chief (Altaf Hussain). He said that the MQM had chosen to remain silent over allegations against it over the past week since it did not wish to get embroiled in a war of words.
He said this kind of allegations are not new for MQM which had been stigmatized in the past with false accusations of Jinnahpur," Kamal repulsed, adding the generals who had maligned MQM with the allegations of breaking up Pakistan had been proven wrong.
He has declined all the assertions of Dr. Mirza by terming it ridiculous act of him, he said that 'MQM understand that the letter written to the former British prime minister Tony Blair is fake'.
Rebutting allegations about MQM stealing NATO supplies, Mustafa Kamal questioned what motive the party would have to do that.
Furthermore, Kamal said that the media had been playing up the viewpoints put forward by Zulfiqar Mirza. Media anchors were deliberately holding a media trial of the MQM in their programs, he said.Kamal also blamed the media for ignoring the ISI and Army confessions of falsely blaming the MQM for harboring anti-state elements which had led operations against the MQM in 1992. And he also urged the media to refrain from issuing judgments till the court had come to a decision.
Here he requested the Chief Justice of Pakistan to launch a probe into the arms licenses issued by Zulfiqar Mirza as the latter had confessed on media. "He (Zulfiqar Mirza) had been at work to build a Lashkar to dismember Pakistan."
Responding to the allegations by Zulfiqar Mirza of MQM-led target killing in Karachi, Kamal said that it was not the MQM who had started the indiscriminate murder of Mohajirs in Hyderabad, at Katti Pahari and Shershah.He pointed out that hundreds of people had been abducted around Lyari on the basis of their Urdu speaking ethnicity. These people were then tortured, killed, and their cut up bodies stuffed in gunny bags.
Kamal also called into question the video testimony of Ajmal Pahari. The former mayor questioned why Pahari was the only target killer found by the intelligence agencies. Kamal also claimed that Pahari had confessed under torture, hence his testimony could not be believed.
"Anyone given under a JIT would have confessed to plotting the 9/11 attacks within two hours. Pahari would even confess to all those crimes he did not commit under torture, anyone would," Kamal said.
He also questioned why there had been no suo motu notice of the killings in 1992 when 15,000 Mohajirs had been killed. Kamal said that MQM would fully support and facilitate the suo motu investigations into the Karachi killings.
Answering the allegations placed on the MQM by PPP leader, Lashkari Raisani, Kamal asked why Raisani was overlooking the fact that criminals rained bullets for four days at Katti Pahari, and when culprits forced passengers off a bus in Benaras and shot dead 14 people.
Kamal also blamed the government for not giving Rangers orders sooner to move into the affected areas of Katti Pahari and confronting criminals. Sumera Ali
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