The wife of death row inmate Saulat Mirza on Monday claimed that her husband was in contact with Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain just before he was apprehended by the authorities in Karachi.
In an exclusive interview with a news channel, the wife of the former MQM worker said she visited the party headquarters Nine Zero for the last time in February. “Since then we were not even allowed to move beyond Mukka Chowk (a roundabout located about half-a-kilometre from Nine Zero),” she added.
She said MQM leader Farooq Sattar told her that the party’s role in connection with Saulat Mirza’s case is over and ‘now you are on your own’. She termed the MQM’s announcement of disowning Mirza as a ‘big joke’.
“Had the party not disowned Saulat Mirza, he would not have opened his mouth,” she said, demanding that her husband’s statement be investigated.
She said her husband did not give the statement under duress.
