Karachi
The All Karachi Tajir Ittehad, a conglomerate of small traders’ associations and bodies, has announced to stage a protest outside the Sindh Assembly building on Thursday afternoon against the proposed curtailment in Rangers’ anti-terror powers and limiting their authority to take action against facilitators of terrorism and crime.
“We have given an open call to all traders, transporters and others from all segments of the society, except political parties, to come and join us. We will gather at Pakistan Chowk on Thursday afternoon and then march towards the Sindh Assembly to protest against the Sindh government for curtailing anti-terror and anti-corruption powers of Sindh Rangers,” said the chairman of All Karachi Tajir Ittehad (AKTI), Atiq Mir.
Though the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday allowed the Rangers to stay in Karachi for another year but did not mandate it to act against terrorism. Instead, it adopted a resolution for curbing the powers of Rangers for taking action against corrupt officials, facilitators of terrorism and government departments, in effect reducing the powers of the paramilitary force to nab only criminals.
Mir said everybody who had suffered at the hands of extortionists, kidnappers, killers and arsonists prior to the Karachi Operation that started in September 2013, was welcome to join the rally. He vowed to lay siege to the Sindh Assembly until the lawmakers restored Rangers’ anti-terror and policing powers, given to them for carrying out the operation in Karachi.
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