KARACHI: Hundreds of Peoples Aman Committee (PAC) members rode on donkey carts from Lyari to the press club in a rally against MNA Nabeel Gabol on Saturday.
Gabol recently retracted his resignation. He had resigned saying that his demands had not been met for his constituency and an operation was conducted without his knowledge.
The rally reached the press club, shops, banks and offices began pulling down their shutters in fear of the large crowd. Cruising the streets on buses and trucks and holding banners, placards, and pictures of Rehman Baloch as well as an effigy of Nabeel Gabol, they repeatedly shouted: “Defence ka bablu nahin chahiye” [We don’t want a wimp from Defence].
The PAC’s Shahid Rehman said: “Nearly 86,000 residents of Lyari elected Gabol in 2008 but all they got in return were gang wars, target killings, bodies and fake police encounters.”
Rehman condemned Lyari ENT specialist Dr Imran Wasi’s murder. He also added that residents of Lyari have no enmity with Urdu-speaking groups and that they had had nothing to do with the attack on the Shershah market.
The people of Lyari will organise a peace rally on Sunday, from Lyari ground to Mardan house. They will then head to the Punjabi Pakhtun Ittihad and Sunni Tehreek offices, before moving to Nine Zero.
Pakistan Peoples Party’s Habib Jan stressed the need to complete work on the Lyari Medical College and hospital.
