Daily Times

KARACHI: The 13th anniversary of a tragedy that took place on May 12, 2007, being marked today (Tuesday) but those responsible for the carnage could not be determined despite the lapse of 13 years.

On May 12, 2007, Karachi was hostaged on arrival of former Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, bloodbath was publically observed in the city of lights where more than 50 citizens among lawyers were brutally killed.

“Dozens of political workers and lawyers were mowed down in Karachi streets in daylight by the terrorist stooges of the dictator for their struggle for the free and independent judiciary and supremacy of the constitution and law,” the PPP chairman said in a statement issued on the 13th anniversary of May 12 carnage.

Bilawal said that dictator Musharraf resorted to brutal attacks against the political workers and lawyers for demanding free judiciary and the majority of those gunned down belonged to the PPP, he added.

Paying tributes and salutes to the May 12 carnage martyrs, the PPP chief said democratic parties and the people of Pakistan are dismayed that the martyrs and their families have not been provided justice though they laid down their lives for restoration of the independent judiciary.

“It was on May 12, when PPP workers were going towards airport to welcome then Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry when they were surrounded by mercilessly killed by Musharraf and his cronies…they didn’t let us lift the bodies of our workers,” Bilawal said while comparing the May 12 carnage to Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Bilawal blamed that main character behind the May 12 massacre was Wasim Akhtar and now he is the Mayor of Karachi as he was the home minister of that time and he allowed the MQM armed workers to attack the innocent people.

Bilawal said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was a new MQM and the people of Karachi won’t tolerate another Altaf Hussain in the form of Imran Khan.