OCTOBER 18 KARSAZ TRAGEDY DEADLIEST ATTACK EVER ON ANY POLITICAL PARTY IN WORLD: SAEED GHANI

Independent Report.

Karachi: October 17: Sindh Local Government Minister, Saeed Ghani, has said the Karsaz tragedy of October 18, 2007, is the deadliest attack ever on any political party in the world. Ghani, who is also Pakistan Peoples Party Karachi President, stated this on Thursday while talking to media persons during his visit to the Karsaz monument on the eve of the anniversary of the deadly attack on the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming rally on October 18, 2007.

The Local Government Minister opined that the vicious forces that attacked the rally on October 18 also carried out the terror attack on December 27 later that year, resulting in the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto. He recalled that 17 years ago, 170 workers and supporters of the PPP had laid down their lives while hundreds of others were injured as the terrorists attacked the homecoming rally at Karsaz. He said the PPP’s leaders and workers visited the Karsaz monument in Karachi every year on the eve of October 18 to pay tribute to their fellow party activists who had laid down their lives while welcoming their leader. Ghani told media persons that this year the PPP’s public gathering was going to be held in Hyderabad to pay homage to the martyrs of the Karsaz tragedy.

Answering a question, the Local Government Minister recalled that the then government had lodged the FIR of the Karsaz tragedy. He said the PPP had then moved the court to become the complainant to lodge the FIR but the government filed a petition in the high court against this move. He said that such an act of the government was unprecedented. He said the evidence of both the October 18 tragedy in Karachi and the December 27 terror attack in Rawalpindi hadn’t been preserved by the then authorities and was wasted. Answering another question, he said that the PPP had moved the court against its decision to order the release of suspects arrested after the December 27 terror attack.