Frustrated over a growing public outburst against him after his anti-military speech, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chairman Altaf Hussain Thursday criticised Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari for leaving him in the lurch.
“Zardari was already hand in glove with the military establishment and he is still in a hookup with the generals of armed forces,” Hussain said in a statement issued here in London.
“I stood by him when he was disowned by his very own,” said Altaf, adding that he was unable to understand why Zardari had raised ‘Pakistan Khappay’ slogan. “I thought Zardari was serious in building (a better) Pakistan. I was wrong,” the MQM head lamented.
Responding to a recent spate of allegations slapped on the MQM, Hussain denied his party had ever killed a policeman. “There’s no blood of any law enforcement agent on MQM’s hands. We are clean,” claimed Hussain.
Meanwhile, more than 100 cases have so far been registered against the MQM supremo over his derogatory speech against armed forces.
According to sources, in Karachi alone, 14 FIRs were lodged in 11 different police stations, including Steel Town, Sachal Malir Cantt, Malir City, Gadap, Quaidabad, Bin Qasim, Sohrab Goth and Super Highway police stations.
Sources said sections of terrorism were included in the FIRs in which MQM’s 27 MNAs and MPAs have also been booked among 200 unknown persons.
Reports said MQM’s Waseem Akhtar, Farooq Sattar, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Rauf Siddiqui, Rashid Godil, Khawaja Izhar-ul-Hassan, Khushbakht Shujaat, Kishwar Zehra, Anwar Jahan Zaidi and Zahida Begum were among those nominated in the FIRs.