Citizens for Peace-Karachi Contact: 0333-4214896
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Citizens for Peace-Karachi Contact: 0333-4214896 December 7 2012
Peace Resolution Since past many years target killings have continued unabbatted. This year alone over one thousand people have been killed. On the basis of language, sect, land grabbing and extortion target killing has enveloped the entire city. Not a single day passes that the murder countdown is stopped. State institutions who are responsible for life and property of citizens have failed to stop this barbarism and the government seems to be least interested in restoring peace. In contrast the police, rangers, city, provincial and federal administraions appear to support and add their part into the violence. State institutions enlist public freedom as cause of bomb explosions and mass killings and clampdown on public freedom continues to increase. But target killings and destruction of society continues and there appears to be no possibility of any end to this strife. Because the state and its institutions are unconcerned and have failed to restore peace and end target killings the citizens will have to come forward for the sake of restoring peace. For this as a first step the atmosphere of fear and terror has to be broken. We will have to say this publically that killings in any name should be stopped forthwith. We will be the target of liguistic, religious sectarianism and political groupings until we raise our voice agaisnt all forms of violence and killings. Violence has become a permanent feature of Karachi's life and we will have to continously act against it. Alienation from state and indifference from instituions is becoming widespread and it is because of this that the society will have to act to restore confidence upon itself. And confidence of the society can only be restored by its own movement. Peaceful citizens will have to come forward. For a mass movement the concerned citizens will have to organise citizens of Karachi. When intellectuls, traders, workers, students, professionals and women will organise and raise their voice only then the killings in Karachi can come to a stop. A mass movement will isolate the target killers, grabbers and extortionists and those behind them would be exposed. Citizens for Peace Karachi resolves that freedoms of the people are not the cause of killings and violence but its the state which has failed to carry out its own responsibility. Citizens for Peace resolves to mobilize social and political organisations of all walks fo life to emerge as an organised movement against killings in Karachi. The next meeting of Citizens for Peace Karachi will be held on December 21, 2012 at PMA House.
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