SHIKARPUR: The Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (the biggest Shia political-religious party) held demonstrations and rallies across the province on Friday in protest against the Shikarpur Imambargah attack and supported the Shuhada committee’s planned march from Shikarpur to Chief Minister House on Feb 15 to force the government to arrest the culprits.
Many religious, political and nationalist parties from Shia and Sunni figures also held demonstrations against the suicide attack on a congregation in the Imambargah which claimed lives of over 61 people on Jan 30.
In Shikarpur, all bazaars and shops were closed by traders in response to the committee’s call for offering joint Friday prayers at Lakhi Gate Clock tower chowk.
After the prayers, the committee head Allama Maqsood Ali Domki informed the gathering of the protest movement the committee had planned to start on Feb 7. According to the protest plan, a march of victim families would be staged from Shikarpur to CM House in Karachi on Feb 15, he said.
He said that a protest camp would be pitched at Lakhi Gate which would remain there till the committee’s demands were accepted. From Feb 13, rallies, shutdown strikes and demonstrations would be held across the province and later protests would be organised across the country, he said.
Besides, demonstrations would be staged outside the Chief Minister’s House which would continue till the committee’s demands were accepted, he warned.
The committee’s main demands were: resignation by the chief minister, constitution of a judicial investigation commission for the tragedy, military action on the pattern of Zarb-i-Azb in Shikarpur district.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Qaumi Awami Tehreek Ayaz Latif Palejo and president of PPP-SB Sindh Ali Ahmed Palepoto expressed condolences with the families of Imambargah tragedy victims.
Mr Palejo also led a rally and a demonstration by his party workers at Lakhi Gate.
KARACHI: The MWM organised demonstrations and rallies across the city after Friday prayers.
“Demonstrations were held outside mosques in Nazimabad, Malir, Landhi, Saadat Colony, Abbas Town and Sachal Goth,” said an MWM statement.
“The Allama has supported the call by Allama Maqsood Ali Domki, chief of the Shuhada committee, to launch the protest march on Feb 15 from Shikarpur to CM House,” said the statement.
HYDERABAD: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz-Arisar (JSQM-A) and PPP-SB protested outside the press club while the MWM activists took out a rally from Qadam Gah Maula Ali to Kohinoor Chowk in protest against the tragic Imambargah attack.
MWM’s Maulana Bakir Abbas Zaidi, Piral Majidano of PPP-SB and Imtiaz Mirani of JSQM-A demanded that the chief minister step down for his failure to nab culprits.
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