The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) hosted a lunch for the visiting Indian delegation of The Mumbai Press Club at its headquarters Nine-Zero in Azizabad. The delegation was welcomed by the deputy conveners of the party’s Rabita Committee Dr Farooq Sattar and Anis Qaimkhani and other members Wasay Jalil, Raza Haroon, Mustafa Kamal and Kunwar Khalid Yunus. MQM parliamentarians and office-bearers of various wings of the party were also present on the occasion. Sattar told the delegation that the MQM is the foremost advocate of cordial relations between Pakistan and India. He said that the time has arrived for increasing people-to-people and media-to-media contacts between the two countries. “Relations between Pakistan and India can be improved by increasing mutual trade. Durable political relations cannot be established in the absence of better economic and trade relations,” he said. Parkas Akola, chairman of The Mumbai Press Club, thanked the MQM its chief Altaf Hussain for inviting them to Nine-Zero. “The Mumbai Press Club and the Karachi Press Club are co-operating with each other and now it was the responsibility of the politicians to strengthen relations between the two countries,” he said. Later, the guests were given Sindhi caps and ajraks at the end of the visit.
