Lyari mystery: In Pakistan, only the influential get justice, say people protesting attack on twins check online:-
KARACHI:
As Haider Qadri, one of the twins injured in an armed attack near his house in Lyari, slowly inches back to recovery, the momentum of the investigation into the incident has begun to pick up, and so has the wrath it has generated.
Haider, 23, and his twin brother, Jamal, were shot at by men on motorcycles as they stopped at a tyre puncture shop near their home on January 2. While Haider was fortunate enough to survive the incident, Jamal wasn’t as lucky.
For the first time since the attack, their father Dr Abdul Ghafoor Qadri, elder brother Fazil Hussain, relatives, friends and neighbours participated in a protest organised outside the press club on Saturday. Carrying banners bearing pictures of Haider and Jamal, the protesters shouted slogans against attacks on students. All the banners had the same slogan: “Do humans live only in Defence and Clifton?”
The protesters demanded the Chief Justice of Pakistan take suo moto notice of target killings, adding that the case of Qadri brothers should be taken up the same way Shahzeb Khan one was.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Raza Haroon, who was one of the participants, pointed to the way that institutions are selectively responding to murder cases, based on the victims’ social status. “Humans live in all parts of Karachi. It is clear that the poor are being denied justice.”
