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Pakistan Poochta Hai "26-07-11" Part 01
During the television show, ‘Pakistan Poochta Hai’ [Pakistan Wants to Know] hosted by Munizae Jahangir on Express News on Tuesday night, ANP’s Senator Haji Adeel claimed the third force was not indigenous to Karachi. The third force includes foreigners “who are imported” to spread violence in the city, he said. “When we raised this issue, [Rehman] Malik admitted in the Senate that visitors arrive in the city from South Africa, do their work and escape on the next flight back within 24 hours. Who are these people? Who pays for their ticket? Who provides them arms?”
Meanwhile, Khawaja Izharul Hassan, the MQM’s representative, explicitly said “militants” residing in ANP-strong neighbourhoods were behind the target killings. He explained that in the MQM-strong vicinities, there are identified people: an identified voter, an identified supporter and an identified MQM mob. However, parties such as the ANP, who are working on an ethnic and religious agenda in Karachi, do not have an identified mob and they do not have identified voters, Hassan added. “Are there Pakistanis residing in their vicinities?”
He supported his argument by saying that 81 high-profile, most-wanted criminals were not arrested from MQM areas but from ANP areas.
Army or no army?
The show was aired on Tuesday, the day of the Rangers operation in Orangi against alleged target killers. At least 400 men were arrested during the operation.
Senator Adeel expressed the ANP’s disapproval of the way the operation was being conducted. The operation should not be held in one area but it needs to be “across the board”. “The operation needs to be in the whole city, simultaneously, under the supervision of the army,” he said.
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