The MQM is a partner in the Sindh government. Javed is replacing Jam Sadiq Ali pending his return from medical treatment in London. Life was disrupted in parts of Sindh after a strike called by the progressive group of the Jaye Sindh Tehrik to protest the appointment of a caretaker Chief Minister, Tariq Javed, who is from the Mohajir community. Native Sindhis were protesting against the repatriation of Biharis, the so-called "stranded Pakistanis" from Bangladesh. Three people were killed in bomb attacks during a strike in Hyderabad. But most shops opened as usual in the city, which is dominated by Mohajir settlers. The clashes were among the worst since Nawaz Sharif took office last November.Īt least 5 people were killed and 16 wounded by gunmen in Hyderabad, as a faction of the Jaye Sindh called for a protest strike to mark the anniversary of the arrest of the faction's leader, Qadir Magsi. During the last 5 years some 3,000 people have been killed in ethnic violence.ġ4 people have been killed and 26 others wounded in ethnic violence. Wounded victims of violence even attend hospitals divided along ethnic lines. The government has agreed to allocate new flats in specific ethnic areas. Sindhi journalists boycotted it and there are now two press clubs. The Hyderabad Press Club held its annual elections. Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the Islamic Democratic Alliance (IDA), has been sworn in as Prime Minister, after his right-wing coalition defeated the PPP-led opposition. A state of emergency was declared to enable the President to act in absence of the assemblies. Elections were called for respectively on October 24 and 27. President Ghulam Khan, pursuant to his constitutional powers, dismissed the Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) government of Bhutto and dissolved the national and provincial assemblies. There were repeated allegations, which were difficult to verify, that law enforcement agencies favored the PPP followers and caused the deaths of innocents while attempting to bring the violence under control or by standing by and refusing to intervene. The army was deployed in Sindh to help civilian authorities restore law and order.
Ethnic violence in Karachi left 13 dead including a senior MQM leader. The death toll in the city reached over 80. The situation deteriorated after the arrest of Qadir Magsi, a Sindhi nationalist leader.
A swap of 76 rival political activists followed army-sponsored talks in Karachi to end days of political violence between supporters of the MQM and the Jaye Sindh, which demands autonomy for Sindh, the home province of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.Ī curfew was imposed in Hyderabad, the second largest city of Sindh, following machine-gun battles between the Mohajirs (Muslim immigrants) and the native Sindhis. Shah resigned as Sindh Chief Minister and was replaced by another PPP member, Aftab S. The demonstrations were called by the MQM to protest against the alleged abduction of MQM members by supporters of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). A curfew was imposed and troops were called in to restore order. Violent anti-government demonstrations organized by the Mohajir Quami Movement (MQM, a movement of Urdu-speaking Muslim immigrants who left India in 1947) in Karachi, the capital of Sindh and the largest city of Pakistan, left at least 60 people dead and over 100 injured. MAR | Data | Chronology for Sindhis in Pakistan
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