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Oppressive

operation against

Mohajirs still

continues: Altaf

LONDON: MQM chief Altaf Hussain has said, "the oppressive operation against the Mohajirs are still continuing and they are still being treated as occupied nation" by those deployed in Karachi and Hyderabad for restoration of law and order.

Altaf Hussain referring to the statement of the Interior Minister that operation in Karachi had been stopped and only terrorists are being hunted. The MQM chief said the masses of the country could no more be deceived and misled by such statements.

He said "the fact is that every day the rangers, police and other forces deployed in Karachi seige different colonies and in the name of house to house search. Thousands of young and old men are rounded up without assigning any reasons. They are taken to unknown places blind folded as if "they are prisoners of war, humiliated and tortured".

He said these "treatment reflected the tendency of ethnic and fascit's rules".

Altaf now given political asylum in Britain castigated all those involed in "humiliating the Mohajirs, whose forefathers were creator of sovereign Pakistan and the patriotism of their present generation could not be challenged by those who opposed its creation or made no constribution towards its creation".

Altaf called upon his party workers, supporters and sympathisers to further strengthen unity in their ranks and hold fast their ideological concept to face the new challenge of the government, directed to "crush them".

He said he was confident dawn will break and their democratic, political and constitutional rights would be concerned by those now trying to crush them.-PPI