This refers to the news report “Behind pro-Zardari MQM rally lies a deal with PPP” published in your newspaper on 31 October 2011. The report alleges that the rally organised by the MQM in Karachi on 30 October was the outcome of “settling core issues with the PPP”. It also alleges that demands were made from the MQM side during the meeting with Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik to stop the on-going Rangers operation in Karachi. I reject the report as baseless.
MQM Chief Mr Altaf Hussain has been calling for indiscriminate action against the killers, extortionists, land grabbers, drug peddlers and terrorists involved in undermining peace and stability in Karachi. The rally at Tibet Centre was not planned in advance and was not even remotely connected with the meeting in London. A decision was taken by the o-ordination Committee of the MQM to organise a protest rally against the un-parliamentary language used by the Chief Minister of Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif.
This report is baseless and far from truth.
ENGR NASIR JAMAL
Central Information Committee, MQM