MWM calls for strike on Friday, demands countrywide counterterrorism military operation

Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen has appealed for shutdown strike on Friday to mourn the Mastung Tragedy in which Shia pilgrims embraced martyrdom in a suicidal attack.
“Sit-ins will continue till the government meets our legitimate demands that include countrywide military operation to eliminate the terrorists,” asserted Allama Hassan Zafar Naqvi, spokesman and deputy secretary general of the MWM Pakistan at a press conference here on Thursday.

The MWM rejected the much-trumpeted idea of talks being floated by some religio-political parties’ leaders saying that the assassins of over 50,000 Pakistanis deserve capital punishment instead of appeasement.

“You called APC and decided talks, they reacted by bombing Major General Sanaullah. You repeated offer of talks, they assassinated Express News channel’s crew. Despite that, you emphasized talks and then came R A Bazaar’s suicidal attacks. They began New Year by massacring Shia pilgrims and again they perpetrated Mastung Tragedy because you have decided not to take action in accordance with the law of Pakistan,” Allama Naqvi narrated.

He questioned how many corpses the government wants that would suffice and convince the government to launch a military operation. He warned the PMLN government and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that he and his family too would not escape the terrorist attack because they had hit him in 1999 on Raiwind Road.

“The heirs of the martyrs demand simultaneous countrywide counterterrorist operation to liquidate the notorious ferocious terrorists from FATA to Karachi,” he demanded.

The MWM leader further demanded that in Karachi, TTP terrorists have made Manghopir Kanwari Colony, Afghan Camp Sohrab Goth and surrounding areas and some other parts of the city as their safe-havens where security officials fail to take due action. He demanded all such no-go areas should be liberated forthwith.

“Had the convicted terrorists been hanged publicly in September, they would have been sacred of the capital punishment but appeasement has emboldened them. Government must hang the convicted terrorists publicly and ruler should not waste time on the pretext of legislation, hang them,” he urged.

Allama Hassan Zafar rejected the claims of good and bad Taliban saying that a religio-political party leader called Hakimullah Mehsud as martyr and Mehsud’s TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid claimed responsibility for bombing of Major General Sanaullah, attack on Express News crew and suicidal attack in R A Bazaar. He said that outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) whose terrorists were trained in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan claimed responsibility for many terrorist attacks including Mastung Tragedy.

“Hence, we know who these terrorists are? If you say they are reacting to pro-US policy after 9/11, we tell you Azam Tariq of outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba was part of the post-9/11 government under Pervez Musharraf. They killed SSP Ashraf Marth and attacked Nawaz Sharif before 9/11,” he said.

He further said that if they argue that terrorists react to drone attack, we tell them first drone attack was made on June 18, 2004 but the terrorists massacred Shia namazis in Friday prayers in Karachi and Quetta much before drone attacks. Their suicide bombers hit innocent people in 2002, 2003 and 2004 in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Sialkot.

“Terrorists and the U.S. play fixed-match because terrorist networks have not been dismantled in the war on terror and they still pose threat to Pakistan and Afghanistan. A retired ISI head say on the record that NATO-ISAF forces pay Taliban for their services. Qazi Hussain Ahmed said in an interview the U.S. and its allied West installed Taliban,” Allama Naqvi said.

The U.S. imperialism wants to prolong its stay in the region that is why the terrorists hit and run to justify the U.S. presence and in turn the U.S. wants them not to attack the U.S. and its allies’ interests.

He demanded compensation, government employment and free education and health facilities for the heirs of the martyrs.