The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Coordination Committee Thursday vehemently condemned a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) report highlighting latest developments in Dr Imran Farooq murder case as an upshot of malicious intent.
“The report is slanderous. It has been mischievously manipulated to soil MQM’s image,” said Kahaliq Maqbool Siddiqui, a senior MQM leader addressing a press conference at the MQM headquarters Nine Zero.
Siddiqui, who was flanked by other MQM Coordination Committee members, also accused BBC of “rigging” the report to distort the facts so that it could be given an anti-MQM slant.
MQM leader, Dr Farooq Sattar, also seconded his fellow leader’s statement.
“The report is strictly aimed at tarnishing our leader, Altaf Hussain’s image,” said Sattar. He said MQM was faced with national as well as international conspiracies.
Senator Farogh Nasim, who represented MQM on Wednesday’s Newsnight programme, said that all the points he had raised with the host Owen Bennett in defence of MQM, were insolently edited out. “The BBC gagged my rebuttals regarding money-laundering allegations. They aired only what suited them to make it a hate-report. We will drag the corporation in the court of law for defamation,” said Nasim.