Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has suspended the party’s Karachi Rabita Committee (Coordination Committee) for what he called its members inability to fulfill their responsibilities despite continual assurances.
A MQM press release said that Hussain is hoping to constitute a new coordination committee in Karachi for which he has invited senior party members to apply. Hussain said a decision would be made on the future of the coordination committee in London either today or tomorrow.
Hussain said Kaiful Warah, Abdul Haseeb and Advocate Abdul Arif Khan would continue to be part of the Karachi coordination committee, adding that other committee members who have been dismissed should no longer bother to visit the party’s headquarters.
Late Wednesday night, the MQM leader had directed the closure of all party offices, only to withdraw his decision a few hours later.
Sources in the party had said earlier that Hussain was “extremely angry” with the coordination committee over certain organisational matters. The anger came out with Hussain phoning members of the committee and directing them to close all offices and hanging up without listening to their responses.
Sources said after Hussain’s directive to close the offices, the committee’s members, parliamentarians and other office-bearers immediately stopped work.
They had then converged outside Hussain’s Azizabad residence in a bid to calm him down by extending an apology, following which the party chief changed his mind.