KARACHI – Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen has demanded the government to dismiss DIG West Police Javed Alam Odho for wrongfully implicating four innocent Shia Muslims in false cases.
“MWM will resort to countrywide protest if the police will not release four innocent Shias,” warned Asghar Abbas Zaidi, an office-bearer of the MWM while addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club on Friday night.  The MWM Karachi chapter’s officials Maulana Muhammad Hussain Karimi, Maulana Ali Anwar Jafri and Muhammad Hussain Jafari were also present. Asghar Zaidi said that the Rangers officials took 19 youths into illegal custody during midnight raid between February 24 and 25 from their houses without any warrant in Gulbahar’s Jafferia Colony.
He cited that Sindh Police Chief IGP Fayyaz Leghari said on record that the Rangers officials arrest people without any proof or evidence and they are acquitted from the courts. He said that finally, these innocent Shia Muslims would be acquitted but police has a tradition of putting Shia youths to media trial to defame law-abiding Shia community and sabotage the cohesive environment of Karachi city.
“The DIG West claimed that the arrested persons had belonged to a political party and recently they quit the political party and joined the Shia party. The biased police officer didn’t name the political party and instead he named the Shia party that was an attempt to defame peaceful and law abiding Shia community,” MWM official said.
Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen condemned the arrests of Shia youth and implicating them in the false cases. They demanded of the judiciary to punish the police and rangers officials who raided their houses without any search warrant and didn’t produce the Shiites within 24 hours since their illegal custody began that is another violation of fundamental rights of any citizen of Pakistan.
‘RULERS SHOULD RESPECT COURTS’: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Mumtaz Ali Bhutto said that rulers should avoid violating the constitution of the country and must respect the courts.
In a statement issued here on Friday, he said that Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and other former prime ministers had constantly honoured the court verdicts. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto went to gallows but refused to confront the court, he added. He regretted that sitting rulers had placed a negative trend and confirmed their real mentality by disregarding the courts. He further stated that the apex of lawlessness and corruption have made the citizens life worst. Mumtaz said that the government had planned for rigging in upcoming elections, adding PPPP and MQM differences is initial step of this poll rigging.  He said, “People of Sindh have to reject the anti-Sindh elements in the upcoming polls or else they would have to bear tenure of injustice.”