KARACHI - Rejecting the restoration of commissionerate system in Sindh, the MQM Sunday announced to challenge this government move in the court of law, besides approaching the people to ask them raise their voice against the 'dictatorial step. Dr Farooq Sattar, who is deputy convener of the coordination committee of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), made this announcement at a press conference at the party headquarters, Nine Zero, after simultaneous meetings of MQMs coordination committees in London and Karachi. Farooq said that MQM will oppose the governments decision in the national and provincial assemblies and the Senate. This is a sheer blackmailing by the PPP government and a punishment for MQMs parting ways with the government and joining the opposition, he declared. Farooq Sattar termed the restoration of the commissionerate system a conspiracy to divide Sindh province and to deprive the people of their basic rights by further strengthening the existing feudal system across the country. He said that MQM will launch a mass contact drive from tomorrow to apprise the people of this conspiracy. Comparing the commissionerate system with the revoked local government set up, Dr Farooq said the LG system ensured transfer of power to the grassroots level and offered a better way to resolve peoples issues by public representatives with direct access to citizens. Democracies all over the world have been successfully using the local governments system, he added. He said the commissionerate system was introduced by the British in the colonial era and it only protected the interests of two percent elites. Now this system is non-existent even in Britain, he added. He went on to say that the commisionrate system negatives the very norms and spirit of democracy. Anis Qaimkhani, a central MQM leader, said that the party would challenge the governments decision in all the courts and strongly oppose it in the national and provincial assemblies. It is an attempt to break Pakistan into pieces and to divide Sindh and Karachi; its a conspiracy against Sindhi and Urdu speaking communities, he maintained. He urged the human rights organisations, the civil society and the media to take cognizance of the situation and raise voice on the issue. On the other hand, tension prevailed in the troubled areas of Karachi as three more lives were lost to violence and as many as six persons were wounded in the different areas of the city on Sunday. Calls were made from certain quarters to separate the mega city from Sindh, besides demands for compensation for the victims and removal of encroachments from Orangi Town and its surroundings. Resident of Hassan Squire and Gulshan-e-Iqbal also demanded the removal of illegally occupied surroundings of Malir riverbed. The ethno-political violence in effected areas has subsided but did not end completely and skirmish between the rival groups continued on the weekly holiday and many areas resounded with sporadic gunfire. The areas of Sector 8, Elahi Colony of Orangi Town, Ziaul Haque Colony in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Old Subzimandi and Lyari remained particularly tense. The police found bullet riddled body of a young man at ZMC Ground, Orangi Town, in Mominabad Police precincts, which was shifted to morgue after autopsy. Another dead body was found in Qasba Colony, the hospital sources said. A passerby was shot dead near graveyard in the remits of Paposh Police. The deceased was identified as Talat Khan. In Lyari, gangsters threw hand grenades at the Unit Office of MQM. Intermittent firing continued in Block 4, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Ziaul Haque Colony and Old Subzimandi where security forces were yet to be deployed to maintain the law and order situation. Security situation was still poor in Orangi Town, where inhabitants are traumatised by the five-day bloodshed. The residents staged protests in different parts of Orangi and demanded the end to illegal occupation of nearby hills. One protest was staged in front of the Qatar Hospital where the demonstrators also demanded to separate Karachi from Sindh. A protester Bashart, a resident of Sector 11, said that all entry and exit areas of Orangi Town are occupied by the Pukhtoon settlers who have been showering bullets on the towns population since 1980 again and again. He said that a number of militants affiliated with band outfits have been arrested from the said areas in last couple of years. We still remember the bloodshed of 1980s, when innocent children and women were burnt alive and shot dead, he said. The protesters also demanded compensation for the victims of heinous murders. Another protester said: Why not their leaders demanded a separate province when people of Hazara and Southern Punjab are making such demands? Agencies add: MQM Chief Altaf Hussain said Sunday that the government has revived the old commissionerate system in Sindh to establish its authoritarianism. In a telephonic conversation with Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan, the MQM chief said the current government is authoritarian and not a democratic government. He said all the political parties of the country should unite on one-point agenda to end the current dictatorship. The MQM chief said everyone in Pakistan is aware of the fraud in the recent Azad Jammu Kashmir elections. He said the current AJK elections should be cancelled and new elections should be held under the Armys supervision. Sardar Attique condemned the violence in Karachi and the government pressure on MQM during Kashmir elections. Both the leaders agreed to make joint efforts for strengthening of democratic system in AJK.