ISLAMABAD – The Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) will make an all-out effort for the treatment of Zeshan Zahid, a patient who needs heart transplantation, Farooq Sattar, Deputy Convener of the party, said on Wednesday.
Zeshan, 22, currently under treatment at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, is the only son of Neelum Baji, a worker of Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N). “Acting on the direction of our leader Altaf Hussain, I am here to assure that MQM will contribute to the expenses of the treatment and will contact philanthropists also,” Farooq Sattar said while talking to the media at PIMS where he had come to inquire after Zeeshan.
Altaf Hussain had directed the party to take steps for the treatment of Zeshan Zahid after coming to know of his illness through a private TV channel, Farooq said. Neelum Baji also spoke on the occasion and said that she had gone from pillar to post seeking help for the treatment of her son. “I even appealed to my party in this regard but to no avail,” she said.
The treatment of heart transplantation is extremely expensive and Neelum Baji, being a political worker of lower middle class, could not afford the expenses.
When PML-N spokesman Sadiqueul Farooq was asked that the MQM had announced to help Neelum Baji for the treatment of her son, he said that MQM prior to serving humanity should stop the assassinations in Karachi PML-N would help Neelum.
