KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has announced to observe three days mourning on the tragic deaths of more than two hundred workers due to a raging fire in a factory in Baldia Town in Karachi.
The decision was taken in a joint meeting of MQM Rabita Committee in London and Pakistan, said a statement issued by the MQM Wednesday.
The meeting termed the horrific incident a National Tragedy and decided to suspend all organizational activities of the MQM in order to pay full concentration on relief activities.
The meeting also decided that gatherings would be held for offering fateha and recitation of the Holy Quran for the people who had perished due to fires in Baldia Town in Karachi and in Lahore.
Black arm bands would be worn by the workers and black flags would be waved at all party offices.
The MQM Body also decided that the Khidmat-i-Khalq Foundation of the MQM would make arrangement for transporting the mortal remains of the workers to their ancestral places in the Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and Interior Sindh besides Karachi.
It has directed the office-bearers and workers of the MQM to take part in the funerals of the unfortunate factory workers and share the grief and sorrow of the mourning families.
The Rabita Committee has appealed to President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Governor Sindh Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad, and Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah to announce compensation for the grief-stricken families who lost their loved-ones in the blazing inferno.
It has called for a high level inquiry into the incident and said that stern actions should be taken against the people responsible for the horrific deaths of the workers including the owners of the factory.
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