KARACHI: Sindh Home Minister Zulfikar Mirza on Tuesday described the targeted killings as politically motivated and said he had been bringing that fact to the knowledge of the president and the governor and the chief minister of Sindh.
In a policy statement on the obtaining law and order situation and the current spate of targeted killings, he said he had told the relevant quarters, whose responsibility was to defend the borders, that killings were taking place in Karachi and the army should take over the control.
He asked the “people of Karachi” to stop bloodshed of poor and helpless people.
He wondered why he was not made a target and why no MNA and MPA had been killed in Karachi and why only poor people were being killed.
“We have to go before Allah, and if we have faith in the Day of Judgment, I plead with you to stop killings for the sake of Allah.
“If we are powerful today, someone else may be more powerful than us tomorrow. And one should have fear of that day when some danda-bearer may come and sit on our heads,” he said.
The minister said that everyone should thank Allah for his blessings and bounties. “Whatever respect, repute and power we enjoy is all given by the poor of Sindh, who are today being killed and their blood being shed,” Mr Mirza said.
He requested Deputy Speaker Shehla Raza, who was chairing the session, to place a copy of the Quran in the house and let everyone take an oath on it that he or she would not be involved in crime. And if even then anyone is killed, he would get himself hanged. He said the only problem was that sincerity was lacking.
The minister said that if ever the PPP felt that “I have become a liability”, he would not stay in office even for a moment.
He said it was because of the sacrifices of Benazir Bhutto that they all were sitting in the assembly.
“It is a last chance and it should not be squandered. This chance is to be utilised for the betterment of the country and nation,” he said.
The minister said that at present only political point-scoring was being done, which was harmful to the country and nation and it was high time that they all got along together.
‘Badmaash elements’
Sindh Home Minister Zulfikar Ali Mirza admitted in the Sindh assembly on Tuesday that the law and order situation was bad in the province and that he took its responsibility.
In a statement on law and order, which was earlier criticised by PML-Q MPA Shaharyar Maher, he said if there had not been the policy of reconciliation, he would have hanged each and every “badmaash” at roundabouts and the ongoing targeted killings would not have occurred.
He started speaking on law and order in Shikarpur district and challenged Shaharyar Maher to meet him and discuss that issue with him. He said he would tell the MPA how many trailers had been hijacked on the highway and from where those were recovered.
He said when those trailers were recovered from a mill, the persons concerned told him that they had leased out the mill and they were not concerned with the recovery of the trailers from the mill’s premises.
The home minister asked them that if they had leased out their mill, why they had given it to criminals.
Mr Mirza said every child of Shikarpur could tell which elements of a tribe were involved in the deteriorating law and order situation and were taking refuge under the policy of reconciliation.
He said about 200 people had been killed in that district in the fire of feudal strife and he could give a list of the people killed. He said a poor man was killed when he resisted an attempt to lift his buffalo.
He declared that he would present every detail in the house as to who supported the criminals.
“I declare that from today no leniency would be shown to ‘badmaash elements’”, the home minister said at the top of his voice.
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