Senator speaks for Dera

Senators accuse govt of derailing war on terror
Sunday, March 08, 2009
By Mumtaz Alvi

.......................MQM’s Abbas Kumaili painted a grim picture of security with reference to Dera Ismail Khan, Quetta and elsewhere. “Daily people are being mercilessly massacred and even funerals are being ambushed,” he lamented. “But the government is totally unmoved to these bloody acts,” he alleged.

He questioned why governor’s rule was not being imposed in the NWFP and Balochistan, where innocent people were being targeted. “After people are killed and maimed in suicide attacks, they are then fired at and the police and administration remain totally indifferent to the gory crimes,” Kumaili said.

The lawmaker from Karachi asked the government officials and legislators to visit PIMS or Polyclinic, where victims of the DIK and Dera Ghazi Khan blasts were admitted for treatment to learn about the horrifying account of the recent suicide attack. “Is not DIK part of Pakistan?” he wondered.

“The police have been seen firing at those who survived the suicide attacks. They say, an MPA of a banned outfit has got recruited favourites in police who are doing this heinous act,” the senator said. Kumaili lamented that people were being assaulted freely in mosques, hospitals and even at Muharram processions. He sought an inquiry into police raids at houses of those who had been wounded in the recent suicide attack in Dera Ghazi Khan.

“Valuables, including ornaments, were taken away by the police,” he said.There is no sign of government writ in the NWFP and Balochistan, but the Punjab is chosen for governor’s rule, he continued and said in 1971, linguistic hatred was spread and today sectarianism was being promoted.

He regretted that neither President Asif Ali Zardari nor Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani had visited the bereaved families in DIK or Quetta, where people were being gunned down every day................

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