KARACHI: Sindhi Culture Day is observed annually (on the first Sunday of December) all over the Province to celebrate the 5000-year-old Indus Valley Civilisation.
In the Metropolis Karachi, the observance of Sindhi Culture Day has never been a peaceful affair. This year too, when the participants of rallies, wanted to use Shahrah-e-Faisal instead of approved route (i.e. Lines Area towards Saddar and KPC). Facing the Police barricade, they pelted stones on them injuring 5 cops, damaging Police vehicles and citizens’ properties.
Office of the Sindh Interior Minister, taking to the X, informed that he had asked the Additional I G to arrest those involved in the incident:
Following the orders of the Ministry of Interior, Police baton-charged and lobbed teargas shells on participants of the Sindhi Cultural Day before arresting 45 of them on Sharah-e-Faisal (who were released after brief detention).
Earlier, in the month of October, this year, Section 144 had been imposed in Sindh by the Provincial home department for a month to maintain law and order in the interest of Public & Peace.
The notification reads: “Section 144 is imposed to prevent all kinds of protests, demonstrations, sit-ins, and rallies and assemblies of more than five persons throughout the Sindh Province, for a period of one month. The Government of Sindh is satisfied that in order to maintain law & order situation and to prevent miscreants from assembly in a manner prejudicial to public safety in the province of Sindh, it is necessary to take immediate measures.”
According to the notification the concerned police stations have been given the authority to register complaints under Section 188 of the PPC (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant) against people violating the ban. Savants at the helm of affair believe that the ban on congregation by means of Section 144 had been imposed to contain a possible manifestation by TLP against US-brokered Gaza Peace Plan.
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