Islamabad : Pakistan’s Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Haider Abbas Rizvi Friday claimed that proscribed religious outfits are involved in targeted killings of more than 100 party activists in Karachi, media reported.
Addressing a press conference, he said MQM workers are being targeted for raising voice against religious extremism and terrorists, Dawn online reported.
Rizvi urged Army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif to extend the scope of ongoing military operation Zarb-i-Azb in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
He said MQM worker Nadeem Ahmad, who was killed Thursday, was a witness in Ayesha Manzil bomb blast and had identified the terrorists involved in the deadly bombing.
The MQM leader said many other witnesses of the terrorist attack have already been killed by the militants.
Rizvi claimed that Nadeem Ahmad was receiving death threats from the terrorists belonging to banned outfits who had identified terrorists in a court.
He said his party was being punished for its strong stance against Talibanisation in the country.