Speaking to a party meeting via telephone from London Friday night, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain criticised the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) for terming Rangers’ actions an attack on Sindh as the same party extended the paramilitary force’s special police-like powers in the province.
Hussain said statements of dozens of PPP leaders are on record in which they defended actions against MQM and said Rangers were only targeting criminals and terrorists in Karachi operation.
“What kind of justice is this where raid on Nine-Zero, arrests of innocent MQM workers and their presentation as war criminals in courts is justified but PPP leader’s arrest is called an attack on Sindh?” Hussain questioned.
He said threats of “waging a war” were being hurled over the arrest of just one PPP leader, adding that his party has never said any such thing. “This is our own army. We have the passion to die for our armed forces,” he added. He also vowed to continue raising voice for separate administrative units across the country including in Sindh.
