About 150 illegally built offices of the MQM were razed to the ground by the Rangers recently. The MQM hasn’t challenged the contention of the government that they were constructed illegally which raises many questions worth answering in order to clear the air.
Murad Ali Shah has admitted that they were demolished on his orders. Wasn’t his party in power in Sindh for about a decade now? Why on earth, in the first place, these constructions were allowed when they were illegal? Did the officers, whose duty it was to stop such illegal activities, ever inform government about these constructions? If not, would the CM Sindh like to proceed against them for failing to take action against the defaulters? If those at the helm of affairs were in picture of these constructions then the only inference which can be drawn is that the dirty political expediency had got the better of law of the land in this case.
What is intriguing is that the MQM has hitherto not contested the government ‘s claim that the MQM offices demolished by the authorities had been made illegally. Isn’t it a tacit admission on its part of its guilt? All that it has said is that it would have been better had the authorities informed it of illegal constructions, if any, so that it could have demolished them on its own rather than the Rangers razing them to the ground. Surprisingly , the MQM also didn’t go to the court for getting stay orders against the demolishing of their offices which further gives credence to the allegation that it knows it had no locus standi in this case.
Let us admit that if the MQM was responsible for these illegal constructions, those people who were in the saddle when they were being raised were equal partners with it in this crime. Let the Rangers find them out and expose them also before public.
The CM Sindh has done well to order for the demolition of party offices of other political parties, including his party also if they were built illegally.
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