KAR ACHI: The director general of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, said on Monday that the Aug 22 violence and attacks on media houses following the anti-Pakistan speech of Muttahida Qaumi Movement supremo Altaf Hussain was an `organised and planned` action, which was facilitated by two bank officers belonging to the party`s labour division.

`The incident that occurred on August 22 was a proper planned activity, which was executed by MQM militants, associated with its different sectors and units,Rangers DG Major General Bilal Akbar told reporters at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.

`From the Karachi Press Club to the ARY office you would find two banks. Investigations suggest that two officers of these banks, who were associated with the MQM`s labour division, helped party workers to stay at their facilities under the directives of senior leadership.

The workers stayed there and were also served lunch by these ofEcers.

He said the paramilitary force recently arrested six suspects and an initial probe proved that the August 22 violence was an organised and planned action, under-taken by party workers, who were already tasked with the job.

He said when the MQM leadership was holding talks with the provincial and federal governments at their hunger strike camp outside the press club during the day on Aug 22, party workers started gathering in the areas around the KPC and ARY TV.

Key men behind the planning and execution of the violence stayed at the two nearby banks while a number of their fellow activists waited for in different streets in the same vicinity, he added.

`We have arrested these six key men, including a bank officernamely Javed Shaukat, while the officer of another bank, Khurram Buland Khan, is still at large. We arehandingoverthesesixsuspects to police for further investigation and to produce them before the respective court under the defined law,` said the Rangers DG.

He said that the arrested suspects told the Rangers that how sticks and weapons were brought to the scene and who carried out this job. `They even have told us who was assigned with the task of firing, which claimed one life and left several people injured. We are handing over all evidence and details of these facts to the police for further legal process.