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Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid President Shujaat Hussain, referring to the military operation in Karachi in the 1990s, has said that 50 to 60 bodies of people from Karachi have been buried in the hills of Islamabad.
Talking to a private TV channel on Tuesday, Shujaat said he had opposed the formation of anti-terrorism courts as interior minister in the Nawaz Sharif-led government
Former Ehtesab Bureau chairman Saifur Rehman, however, supported the controversial actions, he said, adding that Rehman was more powerful than him at the time. The PML-Q president said the army had informed the cabinet that the operation would be against robbers and kidnappers. He further said that Syed Ghous Ali Shah, defence affairs minister at the time, was also named among the wanted men.
- Nawaz [nawaz] was well informed about operation on MQM
Former corps commander Gen (r) Naseer Akhtar made it clear that former premier Nawaz Sharif was fully informed about the 1992 military operation before it was launched, MQM parliamentarians Ayub Shaikh and Iqbal Qadri said on Tuesday. They said in a joint statement that major decisions such as military operations could not be made without informing the government. PML-Ns Ahsan Iqbal had said earlier that Sharif and his government were not taken into confidence before the operation was launched against the MQM.
{Source: Daily Times
Talking to a private TV channel on Tuesday, Shujaat said he had opposed the formation of anti-terrorism courts as interior minister in the Nawaz Sharif-led government
Former Ehtesab Bureau chairman Saifur Rehman, however, supported the controversial actions, he said, adding that Rehman was more powerful than him at the time. The PML-Q president said the army had informed the cabinet that the operation would be against robbers and kidnappers. He further said that Syed Ghous Ali Shah, defence affairs minister at the time, was also named among the wanted men.
- Nawaz [nawaz] was well informed about operation on MQM
Former corps commander Gen (r) Naseer Akhtar made it clear that former premier Nawaz Sharif was fully informed about the 1992 military operation before it was launched, MQM parliamentarians Ayub Shaikh and Iqbal Qadri said on Tuesday. They said in a joint statement that major decisions such as military operations could not be made without informing the government. PML-Ns Ahsan Iqbal had said earlier that Sharif and his government were not taken into confidence before the operation was launched against the MQM.
{Source: Daily Times