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PPP-Aman Committee rapprochement: Sleepless nights for MQM
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August 10, 2012
The President House is under enormous pressure from the PPP Sindh and Balochistan to hold dialogue with the banned Aman Committee after which some PPP Sindh notables have started contacting the senior Aman Committee leaders.

According to reliable sources, under no circumstances the PPP wants to part ways with the Aman Committee, as it would loosen its grip on Layari. On the other hand, the PPP is also facing pressure from the MQM, one of its largest coalition partners, with regard to the Aman Committee. Due to MQM factor, the PPP is using backdoor channels for revival of its relations with the Aman Committee. The increasing cosiness of the PPP and Aman Committee is giving sleepless nights to the MQM leadership which is making plans to sabotage any peace initiative between the two.

In order to effect an action against the Aman Committee the issue of extortion is being raised by the MQM chief Altaf Hussain while his party has directed its sector in charges to keep a vigilant eye on the committee’s activities. In this regard, a special cell has been constituted in the Business Road sector, which would be led by Shoaib Bhai. The cell will receive daily reports from Agra Taj sector, Ranchor Line sector, Pak Colony sector, Gulshan sector, Qasba Ali Garh sector and Malir sector.

Sources said the MQM had directed its target killers to target the Aman Committee members. In this regard, a special target killer team, headed by Nomi Butt, has been constituted in Ranchor Line sector which is being directly dealt with by Qamar Teddy in South Africa. It has been learnt that this team has been given the task that whenever the PPP and Aman Committee talks begin the phone calls of target killings and extortions should increase in the Old City Area to give an impression that the banned committee is disturbing peace.

Sources say there are fears of a massive bloodshed between the MQM and Aman Committee in the Old City Area as the former has made plans to extort massive sums of money by threatening traders in order to malign the Aman Committee. Matters, in this regard, have been settled with Arshad Pappu Group.

Sources said the second round of negotiations had been started with the Aman Committee on the directives of President House. An important personality of Sindh has contacted Zafar Baloch and Aziz Baloch after which Zafar and Aziz Baloch decided to send a 4-member committee to the Chief Minister’s House. The committee members are Prof Iqbal Bochal, Sharif Baloch, Abdul Majid Sarbazi and Habib Hassan.

Zafar Baloch says the President House is insisting on talks with regard to Layari while several members of PPP-Sindh and Balochistan also want removal of differences between the two. He said political activities were in top gear in the country and the residents of Layari were ‘looking towards us for resolution of their problems and we also want to settle issues on a permanent basis’. He said the MQM was constantly pressuring the government not to hold talks with the committee but all of its members, including the PPP MNA Abdul Qadir Patel, want that Layari be once again made the PPP’s stronghold. He said Sardar Aziz Baloch wants that the government mitigate the sufferings of Layariites.

On Friday morning, three tortured bodies were recovered from the vicinity of Layari. The three victims were abducted, shot dead and thrown out to convey an impression that they had been killed by the Aman Committee.

The MQM has again started levelling charges that the Aman Committee is killing “Urdu speaking people. Zafar Baloch said that the MQM itself was involved in extortion. There are reports that Faryal Talpur would be included in the talks at the CM House.

When the Chief Minister’s House Political Secretary Sadique Abu Bhai was asked about the meeting, he suggested contacting the Aman Committee members. When Senator Abdul Ghani, one of the members of three-member PPP constituted committee, was contacted he said he was in Islamabad while another member Senator Yousaf Baloch also said he was in Islamabad and it would be better to contact the PPP Karachi President Abdul Qadir Patel who also could not be reached despite repeated attempts.

Meanwhile, in a statement the MQM coordination committee said that the “quest to take over Karachi and have the next city nazim from the PPP will never materialize”. “Even if certain elements within the PPP are aspiring for it, they should achieve this through a political process and democratic means and not by violence and bloodshed,” said the statement. In order to sabotage talks another eight citizens were ruthlessly killed and dumped in Liyari River on Friday.

The relief workers recovered the bodies from different parts of Lyari River. At least four of the eight bodies have so far been recovered from the river. Two of the victims have been identified as Ali Haider and Farhan. Both the youths were residents of Ranchore Line area. The bodies have been shifted to Civil Hospital. According to eyewitnesses, there are still four bodies in the river and efforts are underway to fish them out. Meantime, another tortured body was found from Sohrab Goth.

On Thursday, Altaf Hussain talked to President Zardari over phone and once again demanded an operation against the Aman Committee. He told the president that things were getting out of hand in Karachi, as the MQM workers were being target-killed and extortion collection was on rise. Sources said following the call the President House directed the Sindh Government to launch a targeted operation in Shantinagar and other areas.

Law-enforcement agencies claim to have arrested at least 38 suspects during targeted raids in different areas of the city. A heavy contingent of LEAs personnel conducted the operation in Shantinagar and Gulshan-e-Iqbal where they detained at least 17 suspects and recovered two hand-grenades and other weapons from their possession. Three operatives of Lyari gang war were also among the detainees. The arrested gangsters belong to Mullah Sohail Group. Similarly, in another targeted operation, LEAs nabbed at least 15 suspects from Kunwari Colony, Orangi Town. Rangers’ sources said the operation was conducted on a tip. The suspects were being investigated.

Meanwhile, the Crime Investigation Department (CID) has claimed to have arrested six suspects during separate raids in Darakhshan and Gizri areas, recovering six TT pistols from their possession. The suspects included Ali Harmain, Babar, Syed Noor, Ejaz, Qaiser Khan and Mujeed Ali. CID officials said the arrested culprits were involved in several cases of crime.


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