Rangers New Mission Against MQM

KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Thursday asserted the capture of 16 individuals from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) for purportedly gathering..

The paramilitary force personnel also recovered Rs31,500 from the arrested men along with documents and receipts related to the collection of funds. — Photo courtesy of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh

KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Thursday asserted the capture of 16 individuals from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) for purportedly gathering gifts by power from Karachi's Rizvia Society territory. The case was denied by the gathering in a crisis question and answer session held after the captures. 

The paramilitary power faculty additionally asserted to have recouped Rs31,500 from the captured men alongside archives and receipts identified with the accumulation of stores amid the operation.

The captured men will be introduced in court, while those demonstrated pure amid examinations would be discharged, by proclamation issued by the Rangers.

A view of the fund collection chits recovered by Rangers personnel. — Photo courtesy of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh

The Rangers' announcement further said that law-authorities won't permit any political gathering or religious association to persuasively gather gifts for the sake of fitra and included that holding a question and answer session with regards to those captured for making persuasive accumulations is equivalent to supporting such components.

A view of the documents related to fund collection recovered by Rangers personnel. — Photo courtesy of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh

The announcement said general society is nourished up of coercion gathered for the sake of fitra. An offer was likewise made to the masses to report at Rangers Helpline 1101 any episode of coercion of coercive gathering of gifts including that Pakistan Rangers would give security to the general population.

MQM denies charges

The MQM has denounced the Rangers' assault at the MQM's Gulbahar part office and capture of 16 gathering activists incorporating an area in-control.

The party's Rabita Committee held a public interview at the party's Nine-Zero base camp, amid which party pioneers addressed under what law or constitution was the gathering of Zakat and fitra proclaimed as an unlawful movement.

The Rabita panel explanation said that the trust gathering commute was being termed as blackmail accumulation by the Rangers so as to legitimize their assault.

The MQM proclamation said that the Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation's (KKF) welfare exercises are subsidized by the gifts made by general society. The capture of gathering specialists and activists, who were gathering stores for the KKF, is equivalent to impeding the exercises of the welfare association and cold-bloodedness to the masses, the announcement included.