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| Sindh government invokes MPO ordinance to detain 156 TLP leaders and workers |
| 2018-11-26 |
| [DAWN] The Sindh government has invoked the 1960 Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) law to detain 156 leaders and workers of Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) for 30 days. The MPO was promulgated by the governor of the then West Pakistain on Dec 2, 1960, during the martial law of Gen Ayub Khan. Since then this controversial law has regularly been used and misused by the successive governments. According to police officials and documents obtained by Dawn on Sunday, the detainees were held after accusing them that they were in the 'habit' of creating an adverse law and order situation by blocking main roads and causing immense inconveniences to the citizens. Most of them were tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on Friday night over staging protest sit-ins in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and other parts of Sindh soon after the arrest of their leader, Khadim Hussain Rizvi in Lahore. Sindh government has issued orders to this effect on the request of police authorities. The officials said that Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Syed Kaleem Imam on Saturday had written a letter to Sindh Home Secretary Abdul Kabir Kazi, requesting him to issue detention orders under Section 3 of Maintenance of Public Order, 1960. Two deputy inspector generals (DIGs) of Karachi’s West and East Zone and four DIGs of Hyderabad, Sukkur, Shaheed Benazirabad, and Mirpurkhas, respectively, had submitted their reports to the Sindh IGP, suggesting that TLP workers be detained under the relevant law to avoid any mishap and untoward incident. |
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