KARACHI-
Provincial ministers belonging to Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Monday sent their resignations to Governor Sindh Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan while the party submitted a request in the office of Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani to allot opposition benches to its lawmakers, a private news channel reported.
According to the report, MQM MPA Khawaja Izhar-ul-Hassan confirmed the news.
“We have dispatched our resignations to the Governor late night and will submit an application today for allotment of opposition benches in Sindh Assembly.”
” MQM’s 51 MPAs are no more part of the government,” Hassan told reported outside Sindh Assembly on Monday.
On Sunday, MQM announced to part ways with the Pakistan People;s Party-led Sindh government over PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s public criticism of MQM chief Altaf Hussain.
Senior MQM leaders Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Faisal Sabzwari have also condemned PPP government for “persistent verbal attacks” on their leader and its politics of hatred and discrimination”.
Meanwhile, Information Minister Sharjeel Memon and PPP leader Agha Siraj Durrani have called on MQM to to revisit its decision of quitting Sindh government.
Bilawal, in one of his earlier statements, had threatened MQM’s Hussain with dire consequences if his alleged unknown men so much as laid a finger on a PPP worker.
“Uncle Altaf, not London police, but I (Bilawal) will personally make your life a hell for you if you don’t rein in your ‘unknown men'”, Bilawal had said.