The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf London has started a 100,000-signature campaign against MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s recent anti-Pakistan speech that will be presented to house of parliament in London, PTI London Information Secretary Atif Shah said on Tuesday.
Shah said the PTI members had submitted 12,000 complaints to the metropolitan police in London against the MQM chief for his anti-Pakistan speech that had instigated bloodshed in Pakistan and threats to the people’s lives there. “In due course, the PTI members have started a 100,000 person’s signature campaign that will be presented to parliament for immediate action against the MQM chief, who in the capacity of being a British citizen, has instigated violence and threats to the people of sovereign country Pakistan,” he said.
Shah also said a demonstration would be staged outside the MQM chief’s house in London on Sunday. He said all British Pakistanis were united against Altaf’s anti-Pakistan speech, adding that the Pakistani society at the London School of Economics, Oxford and Cambridge universities participated in Monday’s protest demonstration outside the Pakistani High Commission in Knightsbridge London.
Shah said it was for the first time in the history of the country that the era of fear and terrorism in Karachi was about to end, but the MQM, through organised rigging that was witnessed by independent observers, had hijacked the people’s mandate. “The 200 percent voter turnover is itsself a big question mark,” he added.
“The PTI will keep protesting until re-polling is held in Karachi,” he added.
When the MQM secretariat in London was contacted, the news agency was told that the person concerned was not available to record the version of his party.