Muttahida Qaumi Movement senior leader Farooq Sattar on Wednesday said that his party has expelled more than 10,000 workers on violations of party discipline in last 10 years, and that the party should also be administered justice as its workers were being “tortured and killed” extra-judiciously.
Speaking in Channel 24’s talk show DNA with Pakistan Today Editor Arif Nizami, Sattar complained that law enforcement agencies were treating all MQM workers in the same manner.
“Rangers raid our party offices and arrest all those present there without any discrimination,” he said, adding that MQM is a responsible political party which has its own discipline and different actions have also been taken against workers in the past.
The remarks come a day after Farooq Sattar’s statement in which he asked the security establishment to ‘forgive’ the mistakes of MQM and take a new start.
“MQM did not send its workers to India for training as a matter of policy,” he had said.
He said that their apology is not tantamount to bowing or confessing to the crime.
“If separatists are being brought to national mainstream then why the MQM is being expelled,” he said, adding that estranged people should be reconciled, not left alone.
Farooq Sattar said that they neither have the list of people who obtained training in India nor had they gone there after getting permission from MQM.
“We demand that our workers must be presented in courts. They should neither be tortured nor killed in staged encounters,” he said.
