TUESDAY JLTNE 23,1992 ZILHI.

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Karachi calm: 67 so far arrested

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L7 MQM torture
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The people hail revolt against Altaf: raids only
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KARACHI, lune 22, (AFP): nant political force in major urban tinued operating from outside
Pakistani security forces have dis- centrcs. It is also a coaliiion part- Sindh province.
covered 17 torture cells allegedly ner in both the federal and Sindh
Iqbal said MQM Chairnran
run by the ethnic Mohajir Qaumi provincial governnrents.
Azb Tariq had givcn assurancci
Movement (MON'I) in Karachi, . Authorities have relarcd a cur- that the group would be rchabil:-

few in disturbed districts

of tated, but no confirmation front

The discoveries \\'ere made af- Karachi rvhere troops and para- the party

was available.

ter troops moved into nvo districts military rangers searched foi itleHussain, founding farhcr of rirc
on Friday following violence be- gai v,capons and put MQM head- MQM, has alleged i'har Tariq anci

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nveen rival MQM Groups that quarters urrder "protccted

left nine people dead and dozens

injured.

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tody."

MQlr,f dissiderlrs, ntaking

an

his colleagues were

being

"threatened and coerced" int.l

supporting the dissidents as l)ar,

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The torture cells rvere used to apparcnt bid to snatch control of of a campaign [o crush rhe I\,10\l

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punish MQM dissidents and op- the party, were reportedlv making
ponents, the officials said, adding contact with their rivals to settle
that about 60 pcople had been ar- their dispure.
rcsted since thc intcrnecine
"Vcry soon rve will set up an
fightinq erupted.
4<i IIoc r.--curmirrec to
","hng,,
A dissicient group opposed to day to day affairs of the parry
aid
lr{QM leader Altal Hussain, who to hold elcctions to decide who
currently is in London, had raided conrnrands nrajority suppor(," a
the party's olfices on Friday, trig- lcadcr of the h,lOM dissidents,
gcring the Iatest violence.

Dedar Iqbal, said on Monday.

Iclbal and othcrs were expelled
fronr the Ir{QNI bv Hussain in
grated to Pakistan fronr India at February 1991. Tirry have chal-'
independence in 1947, is a domi- lenged the action and have con-

The MQM, which

represents,
Urdu-spcakers whose [antilies rni-

Sources said the authoriries

had tightened security in Karacil
and other cities in Sindh, where
the armv

ceployed in lvfay f or
-.",cPdbr" t nr. -lir.r"

rva.s

a iir.r'cniii

and'lawlessness.

Altaf Siddiqui reports: The

situation in Karachi remained
calm and no untoward incident
rvas reported

from any part of the

city while thc police with the held

help of rangers arrested a nuntbcr
of persons and recovered arnrs
fron-r

their possession.

The total number of those ar-

rested 67 during rhe last two days

has now reached 67. The arrests
were made from Landhi, Korangi,
Shah Faisal Colony, Liaquatabad
and Lines area.
According to a nrilitary
spokesman, 21 Kalashnikovs, 13
seven

MM rifles,

12 Kalashnikov

type rifles, four shot-guns,

trvo

stenguns, two carbines, four double barrel guns ten 22 bore guns,
59 magazines, 19,242 rounds 16

stolen cars and 18

nrotorcyclcs
Kaiashnikovs one light nrachirrc gun, onc
scven MNt ':fl" ^- '

were recovercd. Two

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from "The Frontier Post"

Dated: July B, 1992.

Press clipping

T'errorists anl 0f fhern

Altaf Hussain and his MQM
compatriots are not rhe only terrorists we have in Pakistan. All
drosc who oatronised and orotccted them-arc rerrorists, Ghulam Ishaq Khan abwc all.

werc lct .off with

Mian Nawaz Sharif was also

not unaware of what went on in

fcr

Islamabad
were shown the video. She wanted
lo release it for the general public.

But the sh".ine of the film

banned cither by dhulam Ishaq

Khan or rhe general whose sympathies for the MQM werc never
a secret. He later sent his olaloon
to rhe Hyderabad Pucca dlu op.
cration. The police wanted to recover arrns from the MQM stores.

Tne MOM gangii"o-c"Ga our

their women and childrcn and
iried to block the road. Behind
thcra watked the terrorists who

fired at the police under cover of

women and children. The police,
fired back and a large nurnber of
women and children got hit.

At this stage thc aimy intervencd withoui the invitation of

thc civil

goverr[rnenr.

Did

not

lvtirza Aslam Beg changed

the nomenclature of the Mohajir

Qaumi Movement to

act as a tenoris!?

The ISI, thc Intelligence Bureau, the Sindh ClA, rhe special
Po[ce and all special agencics

'knew evcryhing. Bur becausc the

PPP lurked in rhe wings on account of its mass base, and Ms.
Benazir Bhurto threatened to
comc back, thc UI sold rheir soul
to thc devil. Never has anybody
givcn so much for so littlc'. Mi.
Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Mr. Nawaz
Sharif, Jam Sadiq Ali, Irfan Nfarwat, and General Mina Aslam
Beg (possibly), all were terrorisrs.

According ro

press repoil,

hundreds of pcople who dared (o

disagree wirh the pir of Azizabad
were kidnapped and rgnured and
killcd. The KMC issucd derth certificates. Bundles of biank forms

lhe

Muthahida Qaumi Movement.

That nreant quitc another thing.

Aamir and Afaq rcsented ir nol
only bccause of ihc change of
forh but also becausc Altaf would
not share powcr with thcm. TheY

had bced sccrctarics of thc

MQM. Now thcv:had !o ta.ke ordcrs from lhc Pir of Azizabad,
who thry beliorcd, was thcir creation. Thev decided-trbrcak-

ilid nor suir Altaf Hussain who tricd to pcrsuadc thcm

to rcmgin in thc Movemcnt'.
According ro a prcss report, ar
one pojnt things got so out of con-

away. This

trol rhat Afaq shot Altaf in

the
the

foot. He had to be raken to

Abbassi Shahid Hosoiral. Life
then became difficult ior rhe dissidents and rhey had ro rake
refuge in USA.

While bed-riddeil in

AItaf received a

hospiral,

releDhone'call

from Aamir KIan froir Amcrica.

Aamir-tdld Altaf rhat he had pen-

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Gcncral Mirza Aslam Bcg protect

thc tcrrorisas and thc rccoyerv of
srms? Mian Nawaz Sharif as ihief
mhister of the Puniab qave the
Hydcrabad MOM d gifi of Rs.
fivc crorc. This amounr was spcnt
on rhe purchasc of arms and am.
munirion. Did Nawaz Sharif not

lral

errated

cmpry

How was the MQM created?:

The guilry consoence of the dioator Ziaul Haq took a turn for thc
worst foUowhg thc hanging

fascists. Ncarcr home, thc Awami

Lcague was a middle class. Pa$Y.

All of thcm wcro lcfion$l ln

thoir poUtical sPproach' Thc
It{Qlv{, being a thorougi'.brcd

middlc class parry, could nor be

an exceprion. It began ro devclop

of Zulfftar Ali Bhutto and he

to crush the PPP as a
challenser. He had power, but hc
had faiied. The PPP was ihc only

patronage.

one report, Gcneral

and other cities which had

decided

as a tcrrorisr parry, wirh rhc added

advantage rhar ir had funds and

It divided Karachi,
rhrcar ro his sysrcm. According to Hyderabad, Mirpur Khas, Sukkur,
Jchanciad

Khan oioooscd the creation of an rninimum showing of the Mohaathnic orsanisation in Sindh to jirs, into sectors and sub-scclors,
maul the FPP in th. urban centres with mini dictators incharge. It
snd the encourigcmcnt of the began to collco
Jugga rax'from
scparatisr forccs of Jcay Sindh to shops, private residences,
and rniil
deal wirh rhc PPP in thc intcrior.
ownersThe idea \ra! to rcducc it to
Accordins to onc repon its
rhc lcr,/el of a Sindhi parry fighting collecrion fr6m rhe Lines Area for
paramin
the
of
survival
irs bstrlc
the month of Ramazan amountcd
eterg of Bhutto's homc prwincc. to Rr 65 lakh. Poqer corruPrs
In 1986, Sycd Ghuaus Ali Shah and absolute power comrpts abwas Sindh's chicf minister, N{r. solutely. That is what happened tc
Alraf Hussain who was then in thc li{QM. Is woikers and leadprison, was rclcased under his or- c* began to rape innocent girls,
ders and given the assignmenr of Iift cars. and rob thc oeoole. Evforming an dhnic-bascd parry. ciyhing was donc in tlic opcn. No
The assignment was accompanied oolice station would resister an
by two cheques.of Rs. 50 lakh FIR under rhe orders of K{r. Irfan
each for expenscs. The chcques Marw-at, advisor on law and orcier.
had been issued b,y a seth who Thc party became a monsirous
owned cemen! factories and bev- monolith. Dissidens had nowhpre
crage plants.
to go. All opposition was crushed
Altaf Hussain was guided by by force. Zaul Haq had manufacspecial agencics. He formed rhe tured killers.

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ceits. Tncy fell out wih Altaf
Hussain apparcntly, becausc, the
pir had, undcr thc advice of Genreponedly incharge

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somc journalists

great dictaror who had

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president, the Army Chief, General Mirza Aslain Beg Mirza, and

of the

hanged an innocent Bhutto.

Let no one forget that the dissidents have been pan. of the
same MQM. Some of them were

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He.is a terrorist too. Benazir

tritid to srop rhe MQN{. ft *.as

dcmanded of her to wirhdraw all
cases rcgistercd againsr the terrorists of the MQM. When she
did not oblige her governmenr
was dismissed. She had a film
made of thc torturc halls of thc
MQM. Copies were senr to the

more than a year. Nobody

took any norice of their crics. The

coalition was to be prcsewed at
all costs. The PPP had to be kept
pinned down- That was the legacy

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way.

pcrmincnt

cells of the MQM, but rhe dissidents Aamir and Afaq had been
screaming about thcir existence

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Karachi. Bur to save his coalirion

government, he looked rhe orher

lct thc pcoplc know

lr{QM was abovc thc law. Pcoplc
only whispercd about the to(ure
disabilitics

to retum

handed.

lhefiEelves. Some of the tonured

police team had

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of dcath cenificates were recovcred from tonure centres. The

forms wcre fillcd by the killers

Ahmad Bashir

Alrals

closest associates
and could have him terminared
any time. As a proof, hc rold Alraf
to look under his piuow where he
would find a nore signed bv none

other rhan Aamir Khan. Ilc

was

told that he would find another

such note in his bathroom. Thc

notes were found and Alraf Hussain had rh;ee of his bodvsuards
killed. The acecurions hid- been
Atranged by Imran Farooq and
Salim Shahzad, according io an
rnsrder.

On retura from US, Aamir

Khan, Afaq and somc <if their

compatriots took refuge in Lahore. Reponedly, a po[ce leam
was scnt by Jam Sadiq Ali to Lahore for their arrest, as demanded
by AJtaf Hussain. The dissidenrs,
had, in rheir posscssio4 incriminating cvidencc againsr Alraf
Hussain on video tapes. The
Punjab government deided ro
save the evidencc and the Sindh

MQM in

che name of Mohajir

Alraf Hussain also reportedly
righti. Politicians had been+alking
about a four nationaliry Pakistani got in touch wirh the Indian intclfederation. The Mohaiin who did ligcncc agenoT, RAW. The intepranot want to be absorbed in Sincih rior secretary S.K Mehmood

qime out with the siogan of a lifth pared detailed noles for theprime
nationaliry. In Altaf Hussain the rninister and the cabinet h which

Mohajirs found a new Mesiah.

Hirheno they had supponed religious panies
any gain.
^without
Now they

a scpdratc idcntity.
Ziaul Haq backed rhe MQM
personally. He thought thar if he
could destroy rhe PPB in Sindh
the rest would take care of itself.
haci

He also went to sce thc tiling

GM. Sye( leader of Sindh scparatism, and cenified him as a pa-

triot.

Mr. Altaf Hussain because of

most favourable circumstances,
began Io walk tall. He had his
oqrn programme. He wanied to
arpel all non-Mohajirs and all

had been included details of

MQM-RAW relations. Some

documentary oridence had aiso

been attached. fie notes were
also submitted ro rhe oresident.
But no action was takeri o/er repon. Mr. Altaf Hussain had been
working for the ccation of Jinnahpur, an autonomous Mohajir
provirce as a preliminary to thc
c$ablishment of an indcpendcnt
homcland. Hc hopcd lhatthc US
would hclp. She was kindly dis.
posed towards thc MQM. Mr.
Altaf Hussrin could allcgcdlY ga
anv numbcr of visas from lhc

Arirerican embassy. He had a maP

Sindhis from lhe urban centrcs of preparcd for his nav country., I
Sindh and make an o<clusive Mo iqote about it a couple of years
hajir province. His programme aro. It included, in addition to
had. great emotional appcal. Thc Karachi Hydcraba4 MiqPur
leadedess Mohaiir comrnunirv Khas,.Nawabshah, thc whole of

begah to flock aiound him. Hil Tharparker, and all thc coastal
word became the law. Hc became areas of Pakistan fronticrs with

India *ere to be open.

the
With all the.-coastal areas inmiddle class. They havc lands but cluded .in Jinnahpur, the rest of
no Mohajir farm labour. Ther Pakista.r was to be a land-locked
have medium industry but no country. Following my writing,
Mohajir work fprcc. Most tif them Mr. Altaf Hussain asked me to
had houses of their ovrr. Most of sec him at Azizabad. I happened
them rre educated. ThEr orc in to be in Karachi then. Tlrc time
middlc trhding and in whitc-collar v/as ubou( I1.30 pm.l was sick thct
jobs. Within their communiry, night and aplogiscd. I thus lost my
lhcre 8rc no social conlradictions. only chance of meeting the Pir of
a charismatic leader.

Thc Mohajirs bclong to

Thc Nazi Pany of Gcrmany was Azi:rcbad'

middle cl8ss, So wcrc Mussolini's nrovc.

was not too sick ro

was being lazry, and

I will

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Dated: July 6, 1992.

Press

Iron gates
around
Altaf's house
demolished
.

By Our Staff Reporter

KARACHI,

July 5: The

law

enforcement agencies pulled down

deployed in Azizabad near Altaf

sincs. . oarly
morning to ayerr any retaliation

Hrisain's residg.re

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frqm MQM act-ivists.

At-19 ap. the law enforcement

agencies, assisred by rhc tocal
adrr.inistration brought in heavy

w.

trulldozers ind srarted demolishing

the gltes, one by one.
The residents of Azizabad
rbmained indoois when the opera-

being carrie-d ou!.

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_[iqn was

ever, some old women hurled

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abuses when the bulldozers arrived

at the rnain Quaid Avenue.

The Commissioner of Karachi, a

few day ago, had direcred the citizens to voltrntarily demolish the

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residence of MQM leader Altaf

Husain on Sunday with the help of
bulldozers.
Heavy contingents of ArmyrRangers and the police had been

about half a dozen iron gates

erected around Quaid Avenue, the

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lrom "The Frontier Post"

Dated: July 28, 1992.

Press clipping

MQM torturr killings

CominuedJrom pagc I
Taju, Shalrab, Shuriq, Khan Moharnmad, Anrin, Farbcd, Younis,
Wahced Nadcem Nqvla, Arshad,

I.al were also prcsent to ieceivc

the ordcrs. The suspccr with sonrc

companions was given the area

lile K.

Kovc, Trlnr crc. Ar 3.00

hours boys t-tf lvlQM started to
block thc roads and obstructed

lrom thc sucpect and murdered

the Sindhi doctor in his clinic. In

this crirne the suspect did not particioate.

ln June 1990 zonal incharge of

zone B. Sohail Akbar came a[ torture ccll of Jat Linc, he came in
Suzuki hi-roof crcam colour. Thc

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w_as

suspect was pcrforming duty 8t

thc cell along with Mohammad

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a-lso

Qadcr, Sohail Akbar said that he

had brought a boy Junaid from

w.

Gulshan-c-Iqbal. Ho asked mo to

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i'cause thc ceU war e safc olacc.

of Qari

coach opDositc thc

Capri Cinems" thc 'driver

was

taken out and thc bus w8s sct on

fire by the suspect and his companions. Thc suspect along with

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other sccomplices fired in the air

in thcir area the completc day. On
thc nr(t day the suspect along
with his other companions went to
jat line petrol pump and a bus of
RTC was set on firc by them and
passcngcrs were takcn out.

In May 90, whilc

Muhajir riots took place

Sindhi;
in Hy-

o'f a Sinafri in

same.

In June 1990 a meeting was

hcld oooosite Rabta officc in a

housc,'whcre it was decided that'
Dr. Soomro, whose clinic is near
\{azar Quaid-vAzam, should bc
killed bccouse he is SindN. Tho

was

recommendation

of

School

Teacher Qudrvai, who was known

to Javed Lanwa.

In Junc 1931 Harnid and Majid

Dhobi brought a boy of anti

group in iorture cell' from

Tunrinia linc and he was kept in

the cell for a period of two weeks

and wes torturcd

in

differcnt

wavs. The suspect a madc him

nalied and thurstcd an iron striPs
in to his buttock due to which liis
v.srrveA

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quently Faiz Mohumrnad Faizo

fucked him.

In August l99l susPcct along

wjth Asam arnrcd with Pistol
snatchcd a rcd Toyota Corolla car

frorn Jamshcd road an handcd

In May 1990 a meeting

in Pib Colony wherc
MQM chief Altaf Husiain ad'

wtiile Uottr wcrc arntcd snatched a

Tovota Hilux of stcel mill which
wai oarkcd ooposite Capri Cin-

drcssed the meeting and ho askcd

drivcr was standing along with vehicle.

Ihe sanre wa3 handed over
to unit incharge. ONce the sus.

rorists.

was hcld

played major role in thc above

6rent. On the directions rcceived
from the Markaz sector incharye
Shafique was replaced snd Javid
Langra was appointed nal scctor
incharge of the area. Aftcr bcing
appointed sector incharge Javed
Langra estabiished a torturc cell

closcrj house

one boy Nadeem

brought forcebly but he was release-d on the sai same day on the

Sindhi Muslinr socicrv and on next

day suspect along ivith Navccd

followinq sabotase.

Abisenva Linc the suspect also

worked in unit oflice: 'coordination officc Tunishia Linc and was
deputed to clicnt he arms and
aninrunirion and to distributc thc

lease'

rangers yho wNch came in the

area of.'Jat lines to arrqst the ter-

Haniecd, Nadir, Nadim Dara, As.

ghar Kaka, Wahid, Shcra snd

A. set"on firc? general storo of

a Sindh on sociew B. sct on firo a

Qureshi. Some times thc suspect

also ioined them. After their re-

over it to unit incharge Majid,

who said that car is not in good
condition so, they lefi the car in

with othcr workers of

MQM fred on the mobile of

preedy

Majeed

Fahim Farooqi commando, Nora,

Asghar Taka, Tasleem, Guloo,

Naiir, Arnar 7-aidi and Shahid

In Maypunc 1990 suspect

along

derabad the MQM took action

against Sindhis, as readion in
Karuchi and the suspect took part
in thesc riots actively. The suqpect

Flanif Bada renraincd aaivc in

,t

Junaid was a member of PSF.

to raise hands who wcro rcady to

sccrify for Mohajir causc, thc sus.
pect raised his hand in tho abovc

along wirh Taqi,

While suspect was takinc oit tho

boy Junaid from Suzuld hc felt
that Junaid had crpired so hc informed Sohail Akbar, who took
back the dead body of above boy,

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two rnotor-cycles and stopped a

bus

up to 1i5 wcek. They were tortrired bd 8 team consistine of

hours ou 6th Fcbruary

truck lull oi chickcns camc
and was stoppcd by rhe suspect
and his othcr companions. The
chickens were picked by gencral
public and the truck was set on
fire by the suspcct while Mohamnrad Ali threw the petrol on tho
truck. The drivcr ran awqy from
3.OO

pcarcd on , road

Langra yhere they werc tortured

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flates, ncxr day Mehmood, Nadir,

Majed and Naeem got arms

1990 a

hee'd, Nadeem and Munna werc

taken to thc torturc cell of Javcd

that ordcrs had been received

fronr high conrrnand to kill the
Sindhi doctors. Who Iive in gor

tlte u,ays.

aftcr burning the truck a car

diiection of unit inchargc Abdul

Maiid The four boys Chan4 Wa.

thry fircd in air. After 3/4 days of

abovc nrceting another mecting
was cttended by the suspect in
unit officc whcre it was inTormed

fronr Jet lincs pcrrol pump to

Gora Qabristan.' Sonre' woikers
were- given autornalic weapons

lhc scene. Approximately

boys of anti group forcibly on tho

above task. They snatched a whjtc

Charade car but due to misunderstanding with cach other they
canre back and on the way back

Sikan<lar, Dara and hfumgir an<i

Rr

along with Majeed Sakindar

Mota end Nadir brought four

abovc meeting was atterrded by

Nadir, suspect, Majid, Naeem and
Ayaz they were entrusted the

meeting.

ema'M.A. Jiiriah road'and its

After the murder of Murad

in April 1991, pcrsora of

pect brought a Person namelY

Jamil fronr Abvsenia lirre and tortured hinr in tlie cell and lctt him.
On 13 Seotcurbcr 1991 the sue

in the lines area The suspect

pcet along' rvith otlter contpanions

ooened firc in the air to celebrate
binhday of Samads son. ln APrlt

anti-group came forward openly

and started indiscriminatc firing

opposite

the street of

Jamia
Masjid and also staned his coor-

dination office thcre. The suspcct

was nominated as incharge of tor-

turc cell and arms and smmuni-

tion. In May 1991 tho

suqpect

1992 thb suspcct along wjth otlter

accornplicc-s--opcncd firc irr air in
thc area belrinf Jacob line to crearc Parric in the locality. In MaY
1992 a boy o[ anti group Tahir Pa-

soori brouglrt in the localiry.

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Press

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Dated: August 13, 1992.

More MQM militants

held, arms recovered

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tal, Hyderabad and a Pistol was

recovered from his possession.
HYDERABAD. Aug. 12:'I\'e The law-enfo(ces raided a Place
law-cnforcing agencies while con- near Pakistani Chowk, Phuleli and
F.P, Bureau RePort

=d

tinuing

rf-

lor

'id
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te

?itr}]a.-a\ ,il'.'

/as

thc information of Haji Nawab,

thc arrestcd MQM councillor, rocovcrcd huge quantity of arms
from his officc. Thc arnls were
hi<Iden in a bag. The recovered
arnls wcre one Trnnr rifle on
nlauser, two revolvers and one

.hc

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pistol. A case, according to repons, has becn rcgistercd against

ihe said councillor in this regard

iin
eks
:ent

at Sakhi Pir policc station.

him

Meanwhile, the law-enforcing

rdcd
ajid,

toqd

ln

next
veed
red a
vhich

Cin-

its
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over
sug-

amely

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t him.
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sus.

rnions

:brate

Aprtt
other

air in
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n May
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agencies arrested one Mohammad

and

Aqil in Tando Tayab locality

rccovered a rerrolver from his

Chowk
199L.

in the ethnic violence of

carc in this regard was

registered against tfim at Phuleli

police station. One person Fazil

w+q tounded up from Faqeer Ka
Pir locality and one kalashnikov

was recovered from his possession. Meanwhile Anwar was arrested from Hali road localiry and
Nadecm from Pucca Qilla locality
of Hyderabad.

A team of a law-enforcing
agency, raided a house in l:tifabad and arrested Saeed and recorrered a repeater gun from his

possesion.

He is said. to. be in-

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vdlrrrtdudu Ir\rrrLU 4rteJtel o.lrr.-

WaS alSO affeSted in LiaqUat

sron

MoM militants.

son, namcd . Ayub Deshk,..from Coio^u'r"O I kalashnikov was re_

Daata chow1< qng ..P91.!1v--1: .-o'"iJo?orn rrir pii*i*i"^. M.covered a pistol from his posses- iorlw-.i'-ino." arresred were

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rpunded up by the law-enforcers aqencies also recovered a G.3 riflE
ironr Tando Allahyar Town near frtm villase Dokri in Larkana disHyderabad. Az.am-s/o Ayu-! wap trict and i 7mm rifle from Niang

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llso arrested near Memon Hospi- Sharif in Dadu district.

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rips

arrestcd one pcrsoil nanred Aslam

Parvez. Qureshi. Faqeer Moham-

r6rist.s, arrcstcd about one dozen nrad Qureshi was alrested from
js said to
alleged criminals and recovered a Jurial Shah Colony. Hc
huse ouantitv of arms and ammu- be a militant of ihe MQM and
nitlon'from iheir possession, last was involved in the case of a murder of a Sindhi at Islamabad
night.

The law-enforcing agcncies on

lc

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the operation clean-uP

attainsr the outlaws and the ter-

of

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WEDNESDAY JUNE 24, L992 ZILH1J 22, L4I2

LAHORE

NATIONAL DAILY FROM

Altaf group had

6,000 torture
cells in Sindh'
F.P. Bureau Report.

KOTRI, June 23: The

leaders
have

MQM (Haqccqi),

of . the

claimed that have compidrefu rejected rlie Altaf group.

I leader,

erg
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co
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drssrctent

Addressing a preis conference

Amir complex, Kotri, the
-

near

Shaheen

Qureshi, said that Altaf srouo had

the modern ircn<is of

created

subjecting the Mohajir youths to

torture. Thcy ternrcd A[af Hussain, as a "Vanrpire", and said that
he has been rejecrcd by the peo-

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ple of Korri. Tirey said'rhat Altaf

is the trairor of Mohajir people.

Th-ry btamed rop lcaiicrihip'of
MQM for corrupiion, bribery and

embezzlenrent of the funds, which

were forcibly collected from the

w.

poor of the Mohajir comrnunity.

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The dissi<Jent ieaders fulv iuo-

thaI their group w.i]s nor against

the nrilitary or any orhcr lai cn_

lorclng agency. Thcy furthcr saicl
that roclay's acrion oi thc dissidcnt
group of rake over the oll'ices of
N,{QM, rvas cassiecl our aftcr the
lpproval of N{QN,t (Haqceqi)

lcadcrs: Anrir Klran, Aiaor"

Ahnred and Badar Igbrl. Tlicy

said thar
fully support rhcsc
-rhe1,
terocrs ot tlrc IrlQN4 Harlccqi.

Thc leadcrs ol thc ^disiidcnr

facrion, dLrring tlris llrcss confcr_

crrce allcgcd llrrr tho Iocal lcaclcrship of Alral group in Korri uscd

to collcct funds lronr thc

Ivlohajir crnyrloyccs .rl rail",ay'

ntlrlr
an

othcr dcpartrrtcnts. Thcy blarrred

tllar rul)cc\ scvcrr laklr.s,-collcc(ctj
lrorrr tlre hidcs srlcs. hacl bccn
spcltI r )11 bLrvilrg of luxusics itcnrs

krr (lrc Alurl

gror.rp rncrrrbers.

lrcy announccd thilt thcy will

disclosc thc dctails aboui the
I

propcrr ics ol' rltis group vcry soon.

Thcy rrlso cjisclolc<j rhilt Altaf

groJp lra<1 sct up sir thousand torturc cclls in thc Sindh province.

FIR
Continued

from page I

It

nray bc nrentioned Ihat sinrilar cascs lravc alrcirdy bccn rcgist.crcd ag:rinsr thc lcrclcrs ol- MeM

(H)

Hor.r,cvcr, u,hctr

tltc

ncwspapcr

contactctl Larrdlri policc sritibn,

()n ucs(lil)/, to vcrily tltC
rCDOrts
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Fronti,erPost
SATURDAY JUNE 20,1992

ZTLHN t8,14t2

LAHORE

4 more torture
cells unearthed
erg
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co
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Arms recovered: many terrorists

held: Nawaz calls off Karachi'visit
F.P. Bureau Report

tivists also claimed having found

torture cells in New Karachi and
KARACHI, June zo:
I\-f\t1r{L.Ell,
26: The
I ne Law- the
th"_ Oranei
o.rr; town
rom localitieS
incrliries here
he_re On
nn
enforcing agencies and the MQM psi6su. Th* said the rorture

(H) activists have uncovered fo.ur

cham6er in (irangi was discovered

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more torture chambers allegedly last night ufr". tt?U"q"eqigroup

run.by the M_QM, nrilirary sources aaivisis moved into

said here on Friday.
rerdav.'

tfe ai"i

y"rl_

w.

The sources said that fwo tor- Oi ttre other hand, Mansoor
ture cells were discovered .under Chacha, a leader of ine Vetr.l
rhe staircase of MQM head office
t u, claimed rhat rhe Army
in Al-Karam by the Army. They 1Uy,
i,ffiii"tr have ser free Z0 of their
said the chambers were still giving 261yi5ts after 1inding them inno-

recovered

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smell of blood.

Malik, rvho are currently

in

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fronr thc building, sources further Karachi, have established no cousaid. A large numbcr of tact with the MQM (H) so far. He
"terrorists" were also held, they said the further target of his parry
addcd.
was to nrake entry in the Sindh inArmy and the Rangers (ook terior 'cities of Mirpur Khas, Hy-

control of Al-Karanr earlicr this derabad, Nawabshah, Sukkur and

Tando. Allahyar, etc. He said del-

o(

week. There were reports of the

existence of torture cells there but
the Press was not informed about
it after the takeover. It was not

egations lrom these cities had

becn calling on the MOM (H)

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leadership in Karachi during the

last few days.
found earlier. When contacted for
According to another report,
confirnration, the ISPR officials rwo MQM (H) MNAs and an
could not be traced.
The dissident MQM (H) acContinued on page 16

clear rl,hether these cells

were

Torture Cells
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#'il"li
U,l* .Y,1,fi i",here.
tonight fronr
;;;;'';;;;i"'safier^t'trla
failirrg.ro nleet
iil;'';;;a
the Prime Minand
ii';'i;.tiJ""i
Islamabad'
in
ister
-il
'"'i1;;
to
MNAs
Pro-ceeded

wcdnesday
ttr.'i"i"i"i c"pitut oit trvo
highest
the
nieet
i;
;;-,';i;
to
.
.i.it-- otn.iutt. According
leaoers
($)
MQM
the
ioi,i."t,
that the
;"*. ;i.; ,h; imPr"sdioit
-would have a

ijri^J
'"r."i*rlutinir,er
*itt them in- Karachi

ii:$tg#"*'t?";'':l,,I""li'Ti
the eleventh hour'

The hell
thut was!
of also found.

people, including women and

By Our Staff Reporter

KARACHI, June 21: Hundreds

erg
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Some of the women whose

the brothersand sons were tortured to
torture cell of Jutlan<i Lines death in the cell were crying. The:
unearthed by the Army and Ran- Ioud screams of women emotion
gers on late Friday night. ally charged the entire atmoschildren, on Sunday thronged

The cell was opened on Sunday phere, with the family men consol-

by the Rangers for public

viewing.

out-

ing them.

"Theloudscreamsandcriesfrom

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People formed long queues

the cell were a routine matter but

this infamous torture cell of which we were even afraid even to walk
outside the cell," remarked 28till now had operated secretly.

sidethecelltojusthaveaglanceof
Some younisters who were

tor- year-old Saghir of Lines

Area.

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tured in the cell a few months back "Everybody, including the area
rvere also present there, recaptur- 'police; knew about the presence of
in6i their painf ul memories of the the cell," he remarked, but nobody
ibine .'rvas n'illing to take any action

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The cell, rvhich was thoroughll burst into tears when--new

ched bv members of the la'n reached there. "My only crime was
enforcement agencies before its that I used to take meals to hospi-

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opening to the public, still had suf- tals for some dissidents. They don't
ficient proof of rvhat was being give you enough water and food. I
described as hell by those who had : don't know horv I came alive out of
bet:rr tortrrred in it.
the cell," he remarked,
The entry of IvIQM dissidents in
i From official death celtificates
rof tlre l(arachi \'letlopolitarr Corlro. the Lines Area and its subsequent
to deadlv ,urr,.,' equipmenr takeover have totally altered the
!t r",,',,r
,:
"
ij atirl it'r,m emptv bores of Iif e-saving political scenario of the locality.
rlrtre,s
to
an<l
svlinges
bie emptv Small ch ildren were removing,
I
thing neariy all the signs of the past
rr'as including the pictures of I\{QN4
hirlr
coulri
e hiil one's spine
ln
I lv.rrlable in rltt toonr.
leader-s. At one place some children
l.record of the Ztr{C Easr, allot, rvere trying to break the strong
nrq'rt letters of KDA Lines Area marble plaque carrying the narnes
I)c:eloprnent Scheme and other' of NIQIv{ men rvho died in Karachi

rvairl rlrums nearly aliy

organisntion record of N{Q\,l n'ele ri()ts.

FrontierPost
WEDNESDAY JUNE 24, Igg2
ZILHN 22,

LAHORE

I4I2
NATIONAL DAILY FROI

FOUNDED BY QUAID_I_AZAM MOHAMMAD AU JINNAH

Wednesda

Y'*upe

, June24,1992

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By Our Staff

20

Reporter

KARACHI, June 26: The law

enforcement agencies unearthed

some "rape cells" during a raid on

Bhitai and Tarachand.hopsitals in

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Hyderabad on Friday.

cells becuase of political' differences and were ailegedly gangraped by MQM activists.

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The cells were set up in the staff

q.uarters of rhe hospitals and were

allegedly run by some l\feM

o(

actrvtsts. An X_Ray rechnician who

was_allegedly supervising rhe ceJls
has been arrested.

An army interrogation team

is

recording the statements of women

who were dishonoured in these
ce11s.

Meanwhile, the law enforcement

a.gencies raided the MeM Labour

Wing in Al-Karam Square and

unearthed two more torture cells
set up in the ground floor offices.
Seven 7 mm rifles, five 30 bore
pistois, two 22 bore pistols and 324
rounds were also seized by the
agencies. Some MQM activisrs are

believed to have been rounded up

from Al-Karam Square.
Five more MQMactivists, including one Yousuf, wanted in several
cases of kidnapping, were arrested
by law enforcement agencies in
Landhi on Friday.

PAGES Rs.4.5o

22,l4l2

XLVI No. 169 Karachi, Zilha

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Continued from page

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,

KARACHI, Junc 24 II

a'y,rc

,'.'".}]|j,.T,"

i.'jii']g

I(hait
I

boys asked for Rs. 150,000 as ra.

sonr. Tlrc ntoncv was paid. Or:

day, Haidcr cariic inro r.he nr,

hallah but did not come honr
Sonrc boys askcd hinr

srid

11"
to rride

frtr-il[ni#kli#H
i;;i. i3 ti*
-irrou."na

ih;^

palry tJrcnr

to

accon

to an arumuniti,

store in Srdd:rr, Al-l-laris, latc

he rvas shot

to dcath in that storc

";.;;
Haidcr's rrrothcr, Anrina si:
,r,"""lil_!"i,li;::';nii:""
"'n"*"J,i'l;L-t**o'-nJ,tn"rnro*s |[?#r*.i,l.1,11".1,,;"::,:i** thc boys who took her son to A
il,-.:il:?$'#if;.iiiji:lnl"f:
li"g" nro,no rhe area with the Haris were Nadeem Akhta
r^o Moha.iir ctrhao,ri 'iilin"ji'll '"'.,j,,,ltlg:- :::,tE :! yflc! oncg i'.rp or ciry policc. Arrer the dissi- Ashraf Zaidi, Haji Jalal ar
t:
Cantonnrint)- I-ocal Me'M coir- |::B'l'":'I:-':i::
i.Playground derits had'b'een vacared, rhe year- Nadeem Ayoubi. Another o
mand got this 55-roonr hostel of L'::^t'::..::-".t^"."rs'. Dut".had since long persecution of the area peo- lody, Noori Begum, said h
the .swedish Insriture i ' ": uccn converrcl:i,1" l Jicld of tor- ple"u6gan.
house was occupied by the secr,
thinksthat rhe Merr4.y_1:,,io-,,1_

T"i#it

n:f,
iry fi";ffi!"fiir$;^r;l* I .#Ji* "ff.Til'*,tffi"u^
fu?ffi ?^::,"";
"*, ll :lrfi
i,.H lo;;x1*: ur, ; i:'f #
# :,T *1.,r*
lilii i": F lour
:!i":"or:, ii[:
llve ropes, I
which miqht
"

chambers
have
kitchens- once, seem-ro have

been :.'l'."',nung
I ror-lct loose bv thc sectbr barons
been t"tP;lT.t:.:1.:l,hllcinq,
::'.":l:Y"-t" "lS:_ll-tl-g round I during this period.

for a quite ,orn" ii*"

. I Th? *otil.n, some having losr
fr:ll:ff :?H:,Ji.":'ff i;1T,:gl "' ""io"'ifl:f l"T.*.,ff."frffi *iil,i"Jf'."r'l;,L'l.""'IH:?xi1
dents claimed the MQM bqys left then target=shogl,them from 4ar1r". only convinced t-he ncwsmen of
saicl Syed Ashraf Ali,.ene- of .thul
the plaie about 15
15 days ago."
rhey also
als-o drew up
thii their veraciry, they
Tl1.){fi9_A|hraf.Ali,'eneThe rwo southcrn iu*."r"",n rn many alleged viaims of torture ar j quiet a few teais. There was
the_
cantonment. The claim is I Habiba Khatoon, the aged mother
have not bccn uscd lor vcars as
rather, a 99.19
cobwebs blocked rhc
Haq, who was killed
thc cnriance ro ralner..a
99]g one, because the I of Mansorul Haq.
various roonrs, but the nonhern ground rs vlsible.fronr the terraces I atter bcing picked up from Kala
row -shows some signs of recenr :l^:_":uPt" of houses at a little I Bc'ard in N{alir, and there was the
"
olstance.
activity.
I nrother of Mohammad Arshad,
Mo're pronrinenl anrong rhese On the far side of the nonhern | *fro a year ago was told by theii
werethefreshlydugupflo6rsofa rowtheretsawrdeclearingwhich lson to_take children to another
Iarge number of rooms. Residents
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timised,

LandJri-2, rvhiclr
aspcct of a counrry

rcacly-to-use

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carrics the
about
thc torture of arnry pcrsollbungalow and contains a torturc
cell equipped with knivcs, chains, nel. An arnry olficcr prcscnr or.l
mecharrical thrcad-clrillcrs an,l thc occasion- divcrLcri rhc nc*,smen's attcntion.
electric drills besides

Rashid dcscribcd the ,rrodcs ol

cxccution nooscs, uas' cailcd
'Whitc Housc' by MeNI rcrivisrs, Lorture which includcd driJling
holes into victiurs borrcs, harrginl
said Moharnnrad'Rashicl Khan.
Rashid Khan, ri,ho is the the vicrinrs fronr IJrc cciling-riii
younger brothcr of rcbcl lvlpA, they were half-dcad. Sonrc oT tlre

Mohanrntad Younus Khan, saici

things wcre shifrcd aroun<j ir.r rhc

torture

hlll

cvcry two 0r tllrcc

oays [o wlpe out bluod st:rins and

other torLure nrarks. Rlshid wls

torturcd hcre on thc night o[ Juric

17, 1991 . The nighr rviicn an ISI

Major, Kalim,

w-as also torturcd

and huntiliated along with orhcr

arnly ?ersonnel nantcd Mohiyud_
din, Nisar and Yasin.

Rashid allcgccl that

whipped

hc

was

by provincial MeM

minister, Safdar Baqri, in pcrson.

victims of Mohajir Klrail as

named by Raslrid inclutlcd
Shoaib, Haidcr, Arslild lnd lris

father, Faisal, Sohail and yousuf

etc. Shpaib, Arshad's Iather and
Yousuf arc still nrissing u,hilc tlte

bodies of Faisal anri Aishrd rvcrc

later found.
Those who perpetrated horrors
on thc so-called traitors in Moha-

jir Khail includcd former MpA

Ashfaq_ Chief, Amir Siddiqui,

Sirara, Rehan Zaidi, Javed Kazmi

and othcrs besides Salim Shehzad,

Safdar Baqri and Dr. Imran Farooq, said Rashid, adding that he

saw the last mentioncd three

MQM leadcrs the night he was
brought hcrc. He said the army

pcrsonncl wcrc torturcd by Salim

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u.cnt to see the body of

i
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Iooted the Jehez of her'

rr*

grand-daughters. They said it wr

the punishment of rwoltir:

The mother of Shoaib, th

against Altaf Hussain.

missing dissident, said the bor

were threatenirg them with di;

consequences. "They still say th:

the army is here only for s:

months. We'll see you afte;
wards".
Zahida Anwar, a Karachi Un

versity student, articulated

atmosphere

th

of terror which h:

in the area since Jur:

last year, and apprehended thr
after the departure of the arm.
their troubles may again con
prevailed

back. The mother

of

anoth.

politics? Altaf butcher made I

r-olds
Iitics, and mc

Syed lv{ahmood Hussa

a fonner MNA ar

Hashmi,

of chairnran of 7MC East, later to

the newsmen that the dissidel

Mohanrnrad Yousuf, today she is

a widow, having five minor children to support. Anotlicr young
widow, Tahira, said her husland
Haider, was kidnapped and the

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my son in secret-"
Then lhcre was Hajira, wife

About the ISI nrajor and his companions,

Rashid said rlrcir hcads
KARACHI, June 24: Tirc
bcautifully Iaid our sccror ollicc o[ w-ere,.split open and tlicy wcre
bleeding all over. Howevci, whcn
Mohajir KIail

session for two months. Thev al,

went away'', she said, "but later murdered boy asked one of th
army officials, "you tell me, do.
an ll-year-old have any sense

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boys and rcmained in their po

wanted their civil and politic

rights, but Altaf had become
god and wanted no one to i

what he had not willed-

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LAHOR,E

NATIONAL DAILY FROM

3 arrested: arms &. ammunition recovered

MQM torture cell unearthed in Kotri

F.P. Bureau RePort

in tlie

ntcarr-

sonrc ot.hcr places. Thrcc pcrson'

time, police and troop.s also got

lcast three Dcrsons werc arrcstcd plcx, Kotri.
nrorc telephone calls about {he
Following this telcphonc call, prcsence o[ terrorists in dil'l'crcnt
following a'raid on the oflice of
the MQM and unearthing of "a thc military and the rangcrs gath- houses of the towrr.
Following this inl'orntat ion,
torture cell" in the joint action of ercd ncar the said conrplcx, whcre
the law-enforcing agcncies and the policc ol the arca also raids wcrc conductcd on sonre
reachcd. Thc raid was ctrnduclcd houscs and a body-building club,
police in Kotri on TucsdaY.
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wcre also pickcd up by thc policc

and troops olt suspicion of irr

of

Lrvo

groups of rhe MQM at the

the

MQM in Arrrir

sources said that,

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HYDERABAD, June 23: At office of

According to rhe official joirrtly by thc trotrps anil policc which was said to bc usccl as torsourccs, the law-ertforcing agcrt- undcr thc sultcn,ision of a nrlgis- ture ccll. The law-errforcing lgcn-

encou

cies rccovcrcd two rillcs, onc single-barrcl gun, one daggcr, 52

rouncls and 8 curtridge s l'rottr

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killed in

A Tnrm rillc was rccovercd

fronr thc ofiicg. Thc ol-licial

*Karachi shoot-out' kills

Meanwhile, the security forces,

KARACHI, June 23, (AFP):
Four hooded gunmen opened fire which moved in here last week affrom car killing one man and in-

juring rwo in

indiscriminate

"The arrcst6d suspects arc being

interrogated by thc police. If thcr

were found innocent, they woul<:
bc Ict off '. addcd rhe official.
About thc unearthcd tortur(
ccll, thc olllcial said it was appar
cntly a body building club, "bu
y()u'carl call it a torture cell, bc
cause it nright be used as a tortur(
cell. Whcn he was asked abour

the curfcw-like situation in Kotri

he replicd that the said office o;
thc MQN,I was situated on tht

nrain highrvay, so

it

was founr

ncces-sary [o divcrt the tralfi,

froni the said road to othcr routc:
to avoid

irall hqurs lor the sccurity

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a jru'an ..f lau'cnlorcins

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One dacoit, a
Lance Naik

tratc.

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cics rcceived an anonYnious telephone call providing ittfortttrIitrn

about a clash betwccrt thc activists

volvcnrcnt in anti-social activitic.

pur

"'i;";;;r atrackers escaped af- The'infighting in MQM, a poscs. i{c addcd tlrat altcr th.
,"t-iir"'rnt.ing, which creared party of uTou-jpeatlng d"r."n- rlitls rll roads to Koiri u'cr
:8"?t-y
w'cre killed in an cncountcr,. lrc
of
froni rnoia in rrpcrred.
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"'- '--"'-"-r s"tiL, hanis
r*cc'r thc decoir.s and la\,_cnlirrc
D4i, ^igrutrr.

left ut"l"urt nine dead and

Earlicr, alr undcclared curfcr
"'J1.'inciAenf
in Dadu tlistriet on tn"u,"io
\\ils ir)ll){)scd uPrrrt Kotrr to$
canle amid heary 30 injured.
nrgnt.
Ir4onrlay niglrt.
,rr trnnnc
anA rangers
.nnarc in
on Monday,
l\lnn.err
tho authorities
errrirnritiec
the
during thc opcration.
preserlce of
in On
troops and
^lon(rriy
lr4carrr,,,hile, thc clrccking ari.
Larcr, rhe law-cnforcine agcn- Karachi as part of an ongoing reportedly seized 66 rifles, shotcics arrcsted 1l villarcrs frbrn t*,o army operation in southern Sindh guns and machine guns and more patrolling by thc larr-cnlolcirr
villagcs ol- the district ()n the province against bandits, terror- than 20,000 rounds of amnrunition agcrtcics rvcrc highly intcnsific,
chargcs of harboLrring thc c,rimi- ists, saboteurs and anti-social el- during raids on various MQM of- toclay in and around Hydcraba
ements.
fiCes.
CiLy lnd Ktrtri Tori,rr. Thc join
nals.

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FIRS againSt Altaf,

tf,,iil"ii H;'i;"uiliil,:l
Farooq, Baqri lodged

,,fi""Tillt#"1::il'ii,"'oll"J:ll
forcing ugctrcics

fil,Xi

sLrnoI

claslr took placc bctu,ccn

cnlorcing egcncics ln<l tlrc dacoits, in u'lriclr a drrcoit Asghur

in
thc encountcr. A Lanr
Ndcrrb,,.b Ari o' rrrc ,,'i""*!,#|
alias Dhegi Palipoto u,as killc',1

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ulc sccnc.

F.p. Bureau Report

KARACHI- June 23.. *"

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i;:;;i]f; n*tjJgn.*:i,y"?[,fl*{:

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MNA, and Safdar Baqi, provincial

m.inister,..by Moharnmad Shahid

ii',,filflT,",XT,':Tg*r'i],?ior,iJ

."'Em;r

FrR No ,08/e2,

has

B::U?,"?::**1"[t'.XrT,"'f;1
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hw-cnlirrcing rgcrtcics ratdcr'l
:'::'?-. . '.."" "'-'*'" "'-"*r'r-"'o parliamentary parry in the Nat"iiffr"ii|l
n.arby villalc "3o,,i N,lirc'hchi".
ii"""r $;#ptr, .,irl]l Siraluao
resisrered wirh
'rio_ uno Alffaq
Thc personnel ol. luw-cnlbrcins roiiil" ;; been
chief 9l_Mumraz Bei;;;;";;li;;
agency.ctrrrductcd lrousc-to huusc fri,ri.';r;;;
llr",
!n the FIR, has stated
oi-rilf,|o,rirJrino
ry^.
scarch in thc village and an'cstcd ;;;;;ir-*h;;?';,;;'
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'-'""'"" tnat all -of them^allegc.dly kidr;il;v';;;;i';:-"
ffi3t":fl,lii,;1 illo"Hllli}.ol"o
;",:"il11?:fi.,,T] ,lli,,iniiffl,,Ji
and :rnti-social clclrcirts.
A Police official at landhi Meanwhile, Orangi police staOn tlrc sarnc night, anothcr police station told fhe Frcntier tion has also reportedly-lodged an
Aftc.r the said cnc.o.n,cr,

"

ol law-cnf,rrcing agcncirs, Post thal thcy have not arrested FIR on the report of Mohamntad
villlgc Dadu Dclo in any pcrsons so far, nontinated in Usnran, who- has allegcd that
T:rluka N4chrr ol Dlclu district. thc FIRS, but comnlented "there Salim Shahzad and otlier kidTlrc ascnc:ics rounrlctl up a vil- is a lot of timc for us, till 12 nappcd hirn over a dispute ol a
party

raidcd

tearr.rs

of police, rangers and nril

tary \,t,crc conducting t he scarch

pcrsons and vchiclcs orr

Highs,av,

r,

Supcr

Kotri Barragc an

Bridgc, Qasinr Chowk and othc

parts of Hyderabad Torvn. Th

Pr'rs()nncl ol thc agcncics wcr

also taking thc body search of il
dividuals at rnany places. Durin
thc checking, large queues of ve

hiclcs wcrc seen

at

Jarnshor

Phatak, Kotri Barrage

an

Janrshoro-Kotri-Hyderabad
Chou,k near Toll Plaza on Supc
H ighway.

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'"ftri*oatl, Jule- 22: The city

i remained peaceful on Monday,
with no untortard incident being

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reported, except the arrest of seven

KARACHI, June 22: Rangers

conducted a raid on Abbasi

riore I\{Ql\{ activists.

.. On Monday, the Rangeri coniiirued'raids in curf ew-bound areas

to arrest suspected "terrorists and
anti-social elements."

Shaheed Hospital on Monday night

to recover illegal arms and ammunition, if any.

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unearthing several torture cells,

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10 p.m.

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some medical stores in its vic

Some of the locked storeroomsl
were broken opetr bv the Ran8ers. j

thL'torture cclls.

The search is being iatrnclred fol-

lorving tip to this effect bY a

number of people living near the

Tn'o Jau'ans of Rangers were

posted et the telephone exchangel
of the hospital and during the trvo- I
hour search, rvork in the telephone
exchange remaitred suspended.

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Doctors told

torture cells.

1)aHvr

that

The Rangcrs are likely to begin

search on Tuesda.v n'ith the
demolirion of )\'lohajir Khel in the
Lines Area. one of the ntost infamous tortur cells trnearthed by the
Rangers. tr{QX{ dissidents claim

their

two

patients expired at the hosPital

because of the non-availability of
immediate medical assistance to
them during the raid. However,

that some 40 people \^'ere tortured

to death irr this cell.

attd
A large quarrtity
'and of arnts
stoler-r vehicles
ammuniiion
recovered bv the members of law
enforcement agencies cluring the

they refused to disclose the names

of the paticntsSome of the doctors also alleged

harassment and maltreatment by
the Rangers.
Officers of the Rangers were not
available to give tlre detail of the

raid.
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last three da1,'s were put on display

for nervsmen here on Monday.
lr{ost arms recovered on Sunday
were old, rtrsted and locallyYnade.
Half of some 20,000 bullets seized
were beTier.ed to be manufactttred
by tlre Ordnance Factoiy, Wah.
Briefing the nervsmen about the
recovely of arms and ammunition
and stolen cars, Brig Asif Haroon of
ISPR-said these were recovered
from various parts of the city during Operation Clean-up.

About 34 stolen vehicles,

included a Toyota Land Cruiser

and a Pajero.
Meanwhile, the Karachi Police in

its clearr-up drive against anti-

social elements has so far arrested

523 persons of them 23 were nabI u"a tv,r," p"tice Juiing the last +a
I ho..,.s.

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rnu break-down of 523 arrested

n".rnn, is: 297 proclaimed offen-

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"And cover not Truth with Falsehood nof conceal the Truth when ye Know." Al-Ouran

The Frontier Post

REHIVIAT SHAII AFRIDI
Chief Eiecutive and Editor-in-Chief

KHALED AHIVIEI)
Resident Editor

Lahore. Tel:361382-86, Tlx:47363 ZARI PK, 44100ZARI

cells indict?
Whom
do the torturethe'MQM
an ally of the latter.
Twenfy torture. cells
discovered

so

far in Karachi do not indict MQM as

much as the successive rulers in Islamabad and their handpicked governmeriis
in Sindh. The people of Karachi feel Iib-

for being alive and for pllng

their trade. The money accumulated
ransom

through extortion enabled MQM to

be-

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come an armed organisation with all resources at its beck and call, including the
bureaucratic establishment that got rich
under the sh4(_ow of MQSS4kSatity. Mr

in Britain may protest himself

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truth of the matter is that

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his organisation was founded on fear and

extortion. Because of the government's
cooperation with it, the MQM style be.
came fashionable all over Pakistun. \Yithout any exaggeration, the verbal aggression that issues from the mouth of the
politician is of fascist origin. There are

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others like Tahir-ul-Qadiri n'ho tried it

but couldn't pull it off; but one organisation in Punjab has successfully tried the
MQM model and the government is re.
sponding in the saure Pavlovian reflex.
The Marwat-Jam Sadiq combination in
Sindh not only took the MQM to its heart
to crucify the PPP, but also adopted its
political methodologr. The press rvas brutalised by the MQIVI and Jam because the
Iatter refused to come to the det'euce of

humiliated editors and wounded

was

1988,

Wren President Ghulam Ishag Khan took

on the PPP, he took MQM on board with
the help of his son-in-law Marwat who
looked after 'home' and rvas priry to what
the MQM was doing to the society of
Sindh as recompense for what it was doing for the centre. Jam Sadiq was lionised
by both IJI and the President because he
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porters.
General Zia got the non-democratic
forces together to postpone tlte day of his
reckoning, and MQIVI was born from this
policy. When the PPP took on the IJI after

to. close'

he_li

and apologise.

(ln

thC case

of one

news-

papcr, the stafT rvas thrashed, then the

editors ryas called to Azizabad and made
to borv bef<lre the Great Leader, the picture ol rvhich hunriliation was published
above the nrast ol' the nervspaper for
rveeks, and 30 photographs of Altal' Hussain rvere carriecl each day as punishnrent!) In 1990, the Punjab government,
aping the I\'IQM, roughed up the journalists in Lahore, liring Kalashnikovs over
their lreirds. l)ecent politicians like Ir{r
Ghularn Hrrider \4-vne adopted the language ot' Jarn s^adit1 rvhile talking of the
opposition. The centre rnay think that it
n,ill escape the consetluences of nurturing
the crirne of' l\{QI\'|. But the virus has gone
too deep I'or anl,one to e-scape punishment. N'lQIVI's contribution is that it has
turned the heirds of all politicians in
power and rendered them unlit for
democracy. The MQM is now in the
minds of our rulers. Rooting out fascism
from Karachi and Jhang rvill be a difficuU
task for those ryho are themselves infect.
with it.
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Tel 52OOBO: Fax ( Itdit) 522157, (Advt) 568380I, (Managemenl)
Sllil i.3 ): 'felex 23623 PHPL PK U 24L67 PHPL PK:
Cable DAWN. KA-F,ACHI

Karachi's violent Friday

CUIIFEW hirs rettrrned to prompted MQM chief Altaf

Karachi after nearly two years Hussain to charge in his stateand trncler circumstances ment from London that Fri-

perhaps more ominous and day's attacks were part of a

Potentialll, more dangerous wider "conspiracy" to elimithan any in the past. While nate the MQM. In an atmos-

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most of the earlier inciderrts of phere overiaid with layers of

violence leading to the imposi- animus, distrust and suspicions
tion of curferv were triggered of all sorts such as the one that
by sniper firing, the scenario prevails at the moment, it is difthis time
the one that started ficult to decide what credence
unfolding- from early morning to ascribe to certain claims and
Friday
was vastly different allegations. But then once the
and fearsome
in that the com- dust and fury kicked up by a
batants were as clearly identi- particular development of
fiable as their motivation was unnerving proportions have
patent. At least eight persons settled, the truth of why and
were killed and many morg how it happened cannot but be

were injured in the violent the sole focus of public

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clashes between the militants

of the MQM arrd its dissident
faction, with the latter making
a determined bid.to capture
many of the zonal and sector
offices of the former. In the
ensuing encounters ',vhich took

interest.
Indeed, this must also be the
supreme concern of those currently engaged in carrying out
an enormously challenging and
delicate clean-up operation in
Sindh, including Karachi. Any

the form of a day-long running lingering impression of parbattle, both sides used sophisti- tisanship or lack of evenhan.

cated weapons. The intensity of dedness on the part of the agenfighting was particularly fierce cies involved in this operation

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in districts East and Central can only raise uncomfortable

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as

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property, large parts of the city and terrorists. At ant Eia;now

haVe been placed under indefi- that one of Karachi's flashnite curferv and contingents of points of trouble has produced
the army and the Rangers, its blazing flames, the process
besides the police, have been of defusing it must be thorough
dePloS'ed to kee' Peace and and complete
and most of all,
prevent aln)/ untoward inci- scrupulously honest
and impar-

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'Ihat tensio!l betrveen the from both sides have been
I\.{QM ancl irs dissidents had arrested and more are likeiy to
been g"i119 ort for some time be taken into custody to preF rvas knorvn, but rvhat is baffiing vent any recurrence of what
I isrlr, tlaringslrortrrI.r rlrerival happened on Friday. What is
j, fa, ti,'n in rrrorrnt irrq what nrore important, howevcr, is to
. F lookcd likrr a lightning opera- disarm the militants of both
tion to take oYer-the or5ianisa- sides in order that as and when
I ft tion:rl infrastructure of the the present curfew restrictions
s NlONl ,rnd tlrat to() at a time are relaxed, the peace and
I '- nlr-crr tlrc ll-'rol)s ail(l tlre Ran- order in the city are not
' :i gers hacl a srrong presence in exposed again to the dangers of
; tliffercnt parts of rlre city and a fresh outburst of factional
at strategic points
to do pat- violence. In f act, the disarming
r
any process should form part of a
e \{ roliing anci to pre\.ent
1l maior or.rtbreak of violence and wider drive to mop up ali illea: disorder. An element of plan- gally held arms and hidden are,1 tl,l ning and coordinarion was also senals in the city and in the prodiscernible irr the vince. As for the violent rivalry
'., tu clearly
rnannel irr wlricir lire takc-over between the MQMand its riissi; I hirl was carricd out: simultane- dents, since the issue has
^ ()us attacks on several MQM strong political overtones, it
." ,,t oflices and houses of its stal- has to be tackled with the
F !\'arls. the well-arranged Press utmost care and discretion,
'l Ir conference held at the for even the slightest hint of
ll ,, Liaqtrtabacl officc of the MQM partiality or collusion can call
of the matter into
i re' afrer it rras capturcd and so on. the handling
It was perhaps this factor and serious question and alienate a
the extraordinar-y boldness large section of opinion in the
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/MQM's biggest
chamber
of torture

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By Ghulam Hasnain
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One side of the cell was reserved

one of the
small deserted room
-full of dust. for shooting. One of the nearby
50 similar rooms
through walls has a warnign writteq on it,
lmagine a person walking
the dust and mistakenly kicking up asking the guards to use silencers

been almost 12 hours since I visited

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Though the rooms were dusty

this torture house and I am still
and dirt-v, the prisoners left some
feeling sick in the sromach.
And I am not alone, for my feel- sigrrs of their nriserable existence
.ing was shared by the newslnen and on the rvalls. In some of the roorns,
photographers who visited the phone numbers rvere scratched on
infamous and one of the rvorst and the walls rvith the help of stones.
biggest torture houses of the city in charc,ral and rrirrls. The plisoners
probably wrote these in the hope
Landhi on \{ednesdav.
as that if they diecl, some one else who
Commonly knorvn
"Chaow'ani", the torture charnber escaped from the cell might convel'
was once the hostel of a technical information to their families.
institute and later abandoned. It
Some of the rooms have blood
was converted .into a private jail
and torture cell by the MQtr4 to stains. About half a dozen women
and some boys who had noticed a
punish political opponents.
As one enters this complex, one huge convoy of military vehicles
finds a huge stebl structure, 40 feet coming outside the Chaowani came
long, 12 feet wide and 12 feet high, up at the cell to tell of the/r horryfyerected in the centre of the com- ing ordeals to journaiists.

Prior to arriving at Chaowani,

pound. Five nooses of n5rlon and
othe ropes were hanging from the the newsmen were taken to the
roof structure..Alongside the struc- MQIr{ sector office in Landhi to
ture were scattered iron bars, show a torture cell set up in one of
metallic chains and gadgets used
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seems

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stained and some particles of what

obviously was human skin

It

Rabia Begum whose young son,

Mohammad Arshad, was shot dead
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First she tried to avoid the question

and then suddenly broke down." I
came to enquire about the video
cassette." Elaborating she said that
her video film was made by the

activists before she was dishonoured. "I heard that a number of

that all <-rf them had gathered to video cassettes were recovered
mourn the death of their dear ones. from White House (Landhi sector
graphers reached there.

a iump on the floor, scaring away a during practice.

filiEThad iil6eenihere. Ii

the rooms of the office.

Over 40 s'omen of all ages were
already present there when the
convolr' of newsmen and photo-

for torture.

At the far end, there was open

bunch of ants, and imagine picking
up that thing out of curiosity and space surrounded by small bushes
' 'ng out to his horror that it was and plants. In the middle was a

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office)," she remarked.

As the conversation was going on
a

vou[gman

!tc!

e torture cell set up in the secfor help and justice. "We were not tor office was fuil of various equip.
allowed to attend even the burial of ments used f or torture. Drill
Arshad and he was buried without machines, sulphuric acid, nails,

any religious ceremonies

or

shroud."

tvith Mrs Tahira,

Ali was kidnapped ancl later shot dead in front
of ern arntourv shop in Saddar.
Another young lady whose husband \'{ohammad Yousuf is still
Same is the case

whose husband Haider

missing was again and again

requesting the army officials for

the recovery of her husband.

A young man .fawed who

was

brutally tortured in the sector

office. took me ro a corner and
sho*'ed me one of his testicles

burnt

during

intelropiation.

Besides. his entire body had scars.

Besides .|awed, there were some

other young men whose legs were

damaged or broken during ihterro.
6iation.

And there rvere scores of women

who had lost their-men during the
last few months because of political
differences.

metallic chains, hammers, scissors

and other such gadgets including a
sreel struct ure where thc prisorrers
n,ere tied and given elecrric shocks.
The *'omen and young men rchc)
came to the White House to briei
the journalists, claimed that a sec
ret force called as "Kharkar Force"'
rvas active in the [.IQX{ to punish
the political ol)l)oncnts ancl those
rvho u'ere erccused of violating
party disc.ipline.
It was an elite force of N,IQM arrd
even the sector chiefs did not know
r+'ho was in the Kharkar F'orce. 'f he
Force was directlv operated by the
I\{arkaz and Dr lmran Farooq was
incharge of it, they clairned.
One of the dissident leaders who
told the Press that the White House
$'as set up one irrrd a haif years ago
was embarra:sc.d when an old lady
interrupted hirrr dtrring the speech

and reminded him that she had

been watching him there for the

As the women were disclosing last four years, "My son was always
their ordeals to the Press, a young seen with you, tell me where he is",

girl, probably in her 2Os,

was

quietly standing in the far'-end

<;f

the old lady said.

fhe scenes at the torture cells

the room watchirrg tlrc' .tggrievctl

brought tears to the eyes of all,

women surrounded by the rnedia.

"Have vou also lost someone"?

cials.

including journalists and army off i-

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Raids on torture
cells welcomed

MondaY, Iune 22, 1992

Torture

Cells

unearthed
the

F,P. Burreu Rcport

FTYDERABAD
Syed Aalim

Shah, reoror vice- prcsidcnt .of

KARACHT (np'r)

The ioan was

one of rhese\
- AtlArca 'tor.nirt cclls', a trken
ransacked housc,
hugc iron gares in thc Liucs
have bcen opened bv ihc suooor. witb differew itcrns includjnc bro,
iers o-t tho MQM Aligtaeots'ifrc1 ken g[asscs littered hcre and tirerc.
rhe Fnday's anrlgd encbunqe r.
- ,tlr . room. wcrc.hanging nylon

Awanu Tatrik ha5 wclco6c{ thc

uaicrthiug of.
a toflurE cell oi ethnic tenorutg
and a hugc durnp <if.dan8erour:;
weapons in Karechi' Ho.dimEn,,,
ded that {hc caopfUn $hould con,
"
tinue till tenorism ls cqmplctcly',
t.,
sucessful reids and

, This was' statcd. by Licutenanr , ropes from iu ceiling and sa.rd tQ bc

. , Coloncl Safdrr.of ,Fakirran Ran- usid tor hangiog the oppone.nts.
gers wbo wgj bricfing qcwsmen .A large nurnber of pcopte had
"
. : hcre
In a statcmcnt igcuc(t .hcrp.Sungn Sunday aftcrnoon; A rcam Eathcrcd thcre, and tolil rePorterE
day, Aalirq Shah rccalled;that'thc
:
.,oI journqli$ts was tale:o uound the that they had comc to scc for themparnotic Sindhi peoplc hrd becn ,' Liics
Aiea. and ;Vizabad'by rhe sclvcs aiter hcirring about the tor"
' . . lgre ceUr.
fo4ng for thc list ivo ro rhree'r ,
fSPR dcpErtmenl.
years thst a hciuouJ conspinlcv
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Hr
srid
thai
rhtse.iron
g2res Some of tbem told tianowing
had been hatchcd to rorturc'Siird'.'.
we;e posing a grecr'fhreaq t5 the taieso(rorturealle*cdtvmeredour
his. Pathanr and pthcri in the roti. ''
livec{nd_sccuriry of,thc innocenr to rhem or rhcir -neai and dcar
rure cclls sct up in ditferent cides.
' ones.
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thcarea.'... .: . "
PeOFlcof
of the provincc'in order to.inslavsr ;' :,
He
Said
some tonurc cells hadji . The peoplc said that thev wcre
pcoplc of Sindh by cthuic tcng:,
,..j... t:, :.also.been uneanhcd,iR rhc areag .tatqng'a si-gh of relief 'afiei these
rists.
;
.Which werc said to.bc run by. the lortule cells had been lecovcred
Hc cautioncd tbar wlth the. capi .; i
tcirorists for iorturing thcir dpp+ antl rckcu over by mcmbers of the
turing onc torure ccllltthould oor'
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. \itcnts. l' . '
. law fn(ofcemcnt agencies
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said, thi fact wAs

such tomrrc cclls were operatf nd is
diffcrcnt arerr qf Krrschl, flylsl.
abad, Mirpurkhal.,Sukkqr, Na$r
absbah, Tando Adam and Tqnd6
Atlahyar and eve.o in some rmall
towns whcrc cthnic torrorists Erc
in majority. Ho wa$ confidcnt ther
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ammunition would bc found if

opcration against erhnic tcrrorirt'
gEnF was launcbcd throughout
Sindb with all seriourness End full

responsibility. Hc sdd. hundredr,

of innocent Sindbis wtrs killod in '
rodurc cclls and armed rttack! in
I\rcca Qila, Latifabad, Hydcrabad
and Ksrachi. Theit only flult wr5 tbat they lovcd thcir honc\an|,

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The Fr''ontier Post

' Wednesday,t.luly 8, 1992

Abbapi Shaheed Hospital

of MQM terrorists -den
F.P. Bureau Report
inve-A thorough
ordered by an
stigation has been
agency following the startling confessions made by an arrested RMO

Shaheed Hospital,
Karachi. The place known as "rest
bed" forMQMchief Altaf Hussain
during the days of his mysterious

them.

about crimes by MQM men in

of MQM terrorists. "There was no

Dr.

medicolegal certificate (MLC)

"the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital was

best forMQM chief Altaf Hussain,
He used to be admitted in his VIP
suite, with

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Dr. Javed, disclosure reveals

that when migrated to Pakistan in
1973, he was posted as RMO in
Abbasi Shaheed Hospital under

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posted in hospital were the activists of APMSO, MQM and those

who bave already left the country,

was afraid of

were being issued by Markaz-90."

He disclosed that some ?5-26 days
ago a youngster was also killed by
MQM men and buried somewhere
after the orders of markaz.
"I know that there was a lot of

he became frustrated then

he

enjoyed meetings with young girls

particularly after 2 am. He alleged
that "MQM women wing was best
device to trap the girls, who did not

arnmunition of different kinds in

the offrces and also in the room
Salim, Minhaj, Anwar Hussain selected for the security guards.
and others. He said that medical The water tanks and rooms of difsuperintendent of the hospital' ferent doctors were turned into
Waqar Kazmi has aiso fled from sanctuaries against any raid." He

wish to meet Hussain." But, "it

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including Murtaza, Salim Alvi,

Dr.

Javed said" 'lchief

differerit people, who
threatened to kill him. He did not
trust his own guards. Whenever,
Hussain,

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ago-

t reason of ail-

rid of fears and disparations. Unmasking the character of .Altaf

entry of any dead boy, brought by

MQM, even all such orders for any

Farooq Sattar, some eight months

also

found other facts of highhandedness of MQM men, specially the

'character' of MQM chief Altaf
Hussain. According to Dr. Javed,

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operating in the city, has confessed

Dr. Altaf Molvi.

The interrogation team

jobs including to torture the innocent. "The torture room was selected opposite to the room of security guards and we were denied to
go there," he said.

days back by a sensitive agency

During interrogation, he confessed that different security guards

and

He said that Waqar Kazmi's

guards were fully equipped and
authorised to complete their all

Ahmed, who was arrested few

of

they did obey what ordered to

ailment.
According to sources, Dr. Javed

recommendation

hospital, Kazmi compelled several

doctors to leave who did not comply with the MQM orders. He, in
this regard mentioned Dr. Zaka

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of Abbasi

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further said that the MS of the

the country.
He gave his confessional statement before agency and said that
the control of power were in the
hands of MQM "Markaz 90" and

KARACHI

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was fact that Zareen Majid allegedly freed him from frustration
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Abbasi Shaheed
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such meetings.
,through
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He also confessed that the drivers of hospital ambulances weie

.. used to transport the weapons
from one place to another. The
drivers identifidd as: Rasheed,
.

. Ibrahim, Allah Bux and Ghtilam

'Rasool Mohajir. All the security
-.guards, who were trained terro-

in the
hospital and they had to have wear
a symbolic "red" cap for carrying
operation conveniently in the presence of MQM leaders. He said
that the 'VIP suite' for Altaf
'sain was situated on right Husside of
lift of the hospital.
rists, have been posted

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THIIEE DfrYS WfrR OF TERRORISM

BETWEElI

fillil-tfrm HoFt GRoop a pRo-rfil't MoM cRoup

ffi
AITTD NE-ffi
OF MT'EA'IR KHEL
IN LI\NDEI ETFOSED TEE TENNOru$TS

left no doubt that MQM is now

divided into two groups One

Group is " Arti Jam MQM
Group " headed by Afaq Ahmad
Khan arrd Aamir Khan while

the other group

is

Pro-Jam

Group which is headed by

Altaf

iron gates and these streets are

considered to be the part of
Muhajir Khel. The Muhajir Khel
Landhi consists of about 25

Ahmad was attacked thnce as

words for the ruling group of

a show of force. Inspite of all

Sindh) and it became a cause

these arrangements Mr. Afaq

of 3 days war of terrorism in

Landhi Area from 18th June
to 20th June of 1991 for the
poor people who ultimately

Ahmad and Aamir Khan entered Karachi. However it is

still mystry under whose patronage they reached their des-

of few houses, is declared as the " head-quarter" of

tination in Landhi on I7th june

and collected their supporters
at some un-known place at
about 2200 hours on l?th June

streets and the central part, con-

sisting

ism in Landhi Area Karachi

within the MQM Groups have

of few houses. The streets surrounding the Central Part of

the Muhajir Khel are closed by

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THREE DAYS war of terror-

Hussain on papers but practi-

the terrorism where

cally by Saleem Shahzad.

are stored; somerooms aremade

1991

of activists/teror-

prisons; some rooms are used

for torture; some rooms are used
by the guards. Armed terrorist

June i991.

ists participated in this war and

used

Light M achine Guns along

as

with other Modern automatic

weapons.

At least 50 persons
killed

were injured and 5 were

but the police officials and the

important poIitical personalities, however

Khels" Muhajir Khels in

Landhi is situated in Landhi
No. 2 in

mohallah consisting

Jam MQM Group. The Sector

Incharge namely Kazmi was

unaware of this situation till
he reached the Khel. He was
also made hostage. It is alleged
thathe was torrured in the Khel
re were allegations

against him for kidnapping,

torturing and injuring

the

supporters of Anti-Jam Group

in the MQM.
PRESS CONFERENCE BY

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the process of killing and

injuring the opponents still

AltaQ is banned and the fate of

the opponents would be death.
MUHAJIIR KHEL OF
LANDHI : There are several
CELLS of Terrorism in Karachi established by the MQM
and they are known as " Muhajir

were inade the hostages by Anti

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and due to some

of opponents of Quid (means

persons were in the Khel who

hours,on 18th Iune 1991 they

attacked the said Muhajier Khel

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the intervention of certain

persons of the Armed Forces

for everyone after the banners

were demonstrated in every
area of Karachi that the entry

At about 0900

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spectators in this war

THE ANTI JAM MQM

GROUP AGAINST JAM

protect the head-quarter. The

and captured the same withoui

Muhajir Khel of Landhi is

surrounded by the sympathisers of Afaq Ahmad Khan and

any mentionable resistance.

According to some reliable

SADIQ ALI

sources, more than 300 nained

from the press reached

the Pro-Jam MQM Group was

aware of the fact that Anti-Jam
group headed by Afaq Ahmad
and Aamir Khan would make

terrorists of Pro-Jam group of

MQM had left for Lahore and
Islamabad in search of these

Landhi Muhajn Khel and the

this area as their centre. To avoid

their entry in this area special

Group before the attack on ahd

arrangements were made on

Air-Port, Railway-Stations and
Bus-routs. Rumours of their
entry in Karachi made the ProJam Groupof MQM upset. Altaf

and perhaps, due to this reason, there ryas no resistance.

However the news of " Capruring the Landhi Muhajir Khel"
by the supporters of Afaq and
Aamir became a shock and a
deadly blow for Altaf Hussain

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continues. This war of terrorism was not un-expected after

the return of Mr. Afaq Ahmad
and Aamir Khan from America and it had become evident

of Pakistan. According to the

reliable sources about 15/20

0600 hours on I 8th

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officials belonging to Rangers

of

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Thousands

weapons

became the prey of this terrorism on account o[ their innocent faults of being peaceful
empty handed patriotic citizens

Hussain took refuge

in

the

Abbasi Shaheed Hospital under the pretext of some disease while the house of Afaq

leaders
capture

of Anti-Jam

MQM

of the Muhajir Khel

and Saleem Shahzad as

well

as

for Jam Sadiq Ali (in other

At about 1700 hours, thepeople

the

press conference started

at.

about 1800 hours. The whole

area was under the control of
Anti-Jam MQM Group. Three

MPA's of Sindh

Assembly

namely Naeem Akhtar, Iqbal

Qureshi andYounis Khan were

present in the Press Conference. It was alleged in the

Press Conference that Jam

Sadiq Ali was working for
Sindhu-Desh, an independent

Country for the Sindhis and

therefore G.M. Syed always