KARACHI RIOTS.
THE GOVERNMENT BLAMED. PRECAUTIONS NOT TAKEN. (United Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 21. The Delhi correspondent of “The Times” states that the Government was virtually censured when a motion adjourning the Assembly in order to discuss the Karachi shooting was carried by 67 votes to 52. The opposition alleged that the authorities failed to take sufficient precautions to prevent developments arising from the situation, which had been foreseen for several days. Sir Henry Oraik said that the Karachi magistrate’s report showed that the Moslem mob did not intend to rebury the body of Abdul Quayam, who was executed, but merely to inflame feelings against the Hindus. The mob stoned two officials, overwhelmed the police and actually seized a soldier’s rifle. If the soldieis had not fired, the whole population would have suffered, as did the Hindus in 1927.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 138, 23 March 1935, Page 5
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