KARACHI: Demanding that a death sentence be awarded to the culprits, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a partner in the Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition at the centre and in Sindh, observed Sunday as a day of condemnation against the flogging of the 17-year-old girl in Swat. Throughout the city, MQM supporters hoisted black flags, wore black armbands and hung effigies of Taliban to express their anger against the flogging incident. The MQM Women’s Wing staged a rally near the Quaid-e-Azam’s mausoleum. MQM supporters condemned the incident openly as petrol pumps, shops, markets, residential and commercial buildings, overhead bridges were swamped with banners, posters, black flags and effigies of Taliban ‘terrorists’. “We demand that the president, prime minister and the adviser on interior affairs order the registration of a case against those Taliban who flogged the girl on a false allegation,” Altaf Hussain demanded in his telephonic address. He added that these culprits must be hung and their bodies should be flogged in public so that nobody could think of repeating the deed. MQM’s Dr Farooq Sattar and Khushbakht Shujaat and Women Wing’s In-Charge MNA Kishwar Zahra also spoke at the rally, which was attended by a large number of supporters, with women outnumbering men.
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