A former joint sector in-charge of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has decided to launch MQM Imran Farooq Shaheed group, a British based news website reported on Tuesday.
A former joint sector in-charge of MQM Gulbahar town, Naeem Ahmed, has decided to launch his new party in remembrance of MQM’s assassinated leader Imran Farooq.
Ahmed aims to lead the splinter party in the name of former convener.
He said he himself would be the convener of the party and people like Azeem Ahmed Tariq and Imran Farooq had always worked for poor people and sacrificed their lives for this cause.
Ahmed also claimed that heroes like Imran Farooq openly voiced his opinion against some people who were hijacking the party. “He gave his life for the cause like thousand others and he was about to launch his own party when he was killed,” Ahmed said about Dr Imran.
Ahmed added that the website of the new party would be launched soon.
He took political asylum in Belgium in 1996 and wrote letters to Commissioner General in which he requested for asylum on humanitarian grounds.
He had claimed that he feared being killed upon return to Pakistan.