Awami National Party (ANP) Khyber Pakthukhwa President Afrasiab Khattak has asked the government as well as the Supreme Court to declare the Muttahida Qaumi Movement a terrorist organisation and put restrictions on it, a private TV channel reported.
Addressing a news conference, Khattak responded to allegations of MQM leader Altaf Hussain against his party. The ANP leader said that his party was not the creation of the mafia or a gang and that Altaf’s hands were soaked with the blood of Pakhtuns.
Speaking on the May 12, 2007 carnage, Khattak said that the situation in Karachi would not improve unless there was an investigation into incidents, which took place on that day. He said that they would not be satisfied until those behind the carnage were caught. Altaf Hussain had no answer to accusations made against him and his party by former Home Affairs minister Zulfiqar Mirza, he said.
On the other hand, an adjournment motion was submitted in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly against Altaf Hussain’s news conference. The adjournment motion was submitted by MPA Nighat Orakzai which stated that Altaf Hussain in his news conference said the history of Pakistan was false and the country was not formed on the basis of Islam.
Orakzai, the member of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, said in the motion that by declaring all Pakhtuns as Taliban, Altaf Hussain had insulted the Pakhtun nation.
MQM should be declared a terrorist organisation, says Khattak
