Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Dr Farooq Sattar on Monday reiterated his party’s commitment that the MQM would play the role of a neutral opposition in the National Assembly.
Talking exclusively to Pakistan Today, the parliamentary leader of the MQM criticised the Pakistan People’s Party-led former coalition government’s performance unsatisfactory.
He said his meeting with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif at the Parliament House on Monday was not planned, adding that during the sitting, he felicitated the PML-N chief on his victory in the recently-held general elections.
“We went to meet Ishaq Dar to discuss issues pertaining to the coming budget, and Nawaz Sharif was already present there,” Sattar said.
Asked about voting for the prime minister, without naming Nawaz, the MQM leader said his party would vote for the candidate who deserved it.
“The coming government will also fail if it repeats the same mistakes,” said Sattar, adding that serving the people and delivering per the promises made during their electoral campaigns was the most important thing.
He said that was also the reason that the MQM wanted to give a chance to someone else.
“What’s more important than sitting on the opposition benches or joining the government was safeguarding the beloved motherland,” he said.
He said his party’s only desire was to bring the country out of the economic decline, adding that “for that purpose we all have to adopt a multi-directional strategy”.
To another question, he said in last one month the MQM had lost 28 of its activists and workers, adding that “some were abducted by government agencies prior to their murder”.