KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and MQM-P leader and Federal IT Minister Syed Aminul Haque agreed on Thursday to resolve political differences through dialogue.
According to a statement, the Sindh Chief Minister called MQM-P leader to express his sadness over Wednesday’s events. “Such incidents should not happen under any circumstances,” Murad said and the two agreed that political differences should be resolved through talks.
They also agreed to not give the incident an ethnic colour and condemned statements uttered along those lines. The two also consulted on carrying out a post-mortem investigation if anyone was killed in the violence and agreed to not create such a situation in the future.
CM Shah assured that he would get an inquiry carried out and action would be taken against those found responsible. He also offered to discuss the local government law.
Haque also expressed satisfaction over the steps taken by the government over the Tando Allahyar incident. The two leaders agreed on not creating a similar situation in the future. The Sindh chief minister said he will have the incident investigated and hold all officials responsible.
Murad further directed the home secretary to constitute a committee under him to inquire into the incident and fix responsibility so that necessary action could be taken. Furthermore, Murad called on the MQM-P MPA Sadaqat Hussain to inquire after his injuries.
‘MQM-P worker died of heart attack’
Addressing a press conference earlier in the day, Sindh Information Minister Saeed Ghani said that the death of the MQM-P worker was not caused by police violence but was due to a heart attack.
The minister claimed that the impression being created was that an individual was killed due to violence, however, no reports of an injured dying at a government hospital have come to light.
