MWM leader Allama Aijaz Behishti joins sit-in of Minhaj-ul-Quran against PMLN govt

Majlis-e-Wahdat-e- Muslimeen’s leader Allama Aijaz Behishti joined the sit-in of Tehrik-e-Minhaj-ul-Quran/Pakistan Awami Tehrik of Dr Tahir ul Qadri who are protesting outside Karachi Press Club on Tuesday against the Lahore Police action against their party comrades.

Accompanied by the MWM’s officials Ali Hussain Naqvi, Nasir Hussaini, Hassan Hashmi, Engineer Raza Naqvi and Asif Safavi, Allama Behishti remained with the protestors to express solidarity with the victims of the biased PMLN government of Punjab.

“The PMLN government is trying to target the pro-operation parties and figures because the rulers never wanted a military operation to eliminate the terrorists in Waziristan,” said Allama Behishti speaking to the protestors. He said that Lahore action was a proof that the PMLN government did so to divert public attention from Waziristan operation.

He said that peaceful political opponents were sprayed with bullets, tear gas shells and baton-charged. He said that Shahbaz Sharif-led Punjab government acted liked butcher demonstrating incivility. He said that even women were not spared and they too were thrashed and fired upon.

“We see this uncalled for brutal action against the anti-Taliban party by the pro-Taliban government who got US dollars 1.5 billion from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to toe their line,” he said.

Allama Behishti rejected the Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah’s charges against the peaceful protestors of Minhaj ul Quran and Pakistan Awami Tehrik. He said that they were not armed but Punjab government was trying to understate police action against the peaceful protestors.