MQM chief says his party could come into power if Establishment supports it
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chairman Altaf Hussain on Wednesday said his party could come into power if the Establishment supports it.
“But I do not know why the Establishment is against us,” the MQM chief said while addressing his supporters via video link. “If our party comes into power, in one year we will evict the loan takers from their palaces and build schools and welfare organisations there,” said Altaf.
Altaf said that the judges who have decided to try former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf under Article 6 for treason should either release the former dictator or take suo moto action against all those involved in the 1999 coup.
The MQM chief asked why all those lawyers, who had participated in the movement to restore the judiciary, do not protest that all those involved in 1999 coup were not being tried along with Musharraf.
Talking about local government and democracy, the MQM chief said, “For me a democratic system without local government is worse than a dictatorship.”
The MQM chief said whenever a civil government comes into power in Pakistan, it never holds local bodies elections, which is the basic element of any democratic society. He added that army dictatorships should be given the credit for holding local government elections.
Responding to criticism for calling for more administrative units, Altaf said that PPP’s government had presented the resolution in the assembly for the creation of South Punjab, and now PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is talking against the creation of new administrative units in Sindh. Addressing Bilawal, he said, “You have studied abroad, are you not aware that new administrative units are created with increase in population.”
He alleged that PPP co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari has found a new way of criticising people, “Where he [Zardari] does not to say directly, he directs Bilawal to say it.”
BILAWAL TWEETS, ALTAF RESPONDS:
Soon after Altaf’s address, Bilawal Bhutto tweeted: “Marsoon marsoon Sindh na daisoon”. The MQM chief responded by tweeting: “Daisoon daisoon poora Sindh daisoon.”
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