MQM devises six-point proposal

KARACHI - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a coalition partner of ruling PPP, has prepared its proposal comprising six suggestions to uproot the menace of targeted-killings, maintaining law and order and restoring peace in the provincial capital. According to the MQMs proposal that is part of its reform plan MQMs Programme for Important Reforms in Pakistan, the party should be involved every government decision and it should be consulted in law and order-related matters while the Sindh CM should hold a meeting of PPP and MQM ministers every 15 days for exchanging information and consultation. In its proposal, MQM advocated that 50 Rangers pickets are required fulltime to avert any type of violence in the vicinity of 15 to 20 police stations of Karachi. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement emphasised that consistent action should be taken against land, drug, weapon mafias and so-called Lyari peace committee, accusing Lyari Peace Committee of its links with Taliban and Qaida and seeking stern action against the committee to break its links with the militants. The MQM in its proposal recommended that PPP and ANP have to give up their political complicity in this regard, if any. To maintain law and order, the MQM suggested that peace committee of citizens at police station and town levels should be formed. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement advised setting up vigilance committees in Pashto-speaking neighbourhoods of city while ANP must take lead in this regard. The proposals termed the police reforms are essential, laid emphasis on devolution of powers of land and police control from the provincial government domain to the city district government domain. In the recommendations, the MQM has attached a note, recalling that when Muttahida Qaumi Movement was running the city with its Minister of Interior in government of Sindh from 2002 to 2007 there were no cases of target killing or any big incidence of violence thus its involvement is essential for durable peace in the city. Though the copy of six-point proposal is available with TheNation, Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders Dr Farooq Sattar and Faisal Sabzwari were not available to comment despite repeated phone calls.

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