Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Rauf Siddiqui Thursday claimed that the Joint Investigation Team’s (JIT) report is based on hearsay, adding that the MQM was being subjected to the media trial over ‘baseless allegations’.
Talking to the media after filing nomination papers for the Senate elections, Siddiqui said the MQM was being subjected to a media trial over baseless allegations.
Barrister Nasim Farogh said after Nelson Mandela it was MQM chief Altaf Hussain who had been exile for the longest period. He said the JIT’s report could not be given preference over the findings of judicial commission. The lawyer said that Altaf Hussain was one of the greatest leaders in the present era.
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Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said this while talking to newsmen that secret balloting would be done on 11 seats of the senate elections, adding that this would be an election and not selection. The PPP will contest on seven seats whereas the MQM would contest senate elections on four seats.
The atmosphere among the MQM and the PPP was good as PPP co-president Asif Ali Zardari had initiated the politics of cooperation among each other, said a PPP member.
Syed Qaim Ali Shah politics was progressing in the right direction in Sindh due to their reconciliatory politics. Other parties should take learn from them which would help in improving the environment of the country, he added.
