PML-N dubs Altaf Hussain’s speech ‘a joke’

Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Saturday termed the Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain’s address as nothing but wastage of time, worst kind of political trickery and a joke.
Khan said Altaf had talked about every thing except the problems of the Pakistani people. “The nation is confronted with law and order, extremism, price-hike, unemployment, energy crisis and many other issues but the man sitting in London hardly touched these issues during his speech,” he said. He expressed disappointment over the Karachi situation in the context of Altaf’s speech saying he never, in his whole political life, witnessed such a useless, nonsensical and vague speech.
He said Altaf’s speech was a far cry from a solid, responsible answer to Zulfiqar Mirza’s severe allegations, adding that Hussain twisted facts with the presumption that the nation was deaf and dumb. Khan termed the allegations levelled by Hussain against Jamaat-i-Islami in the context of May 12 incident as a joke adding the MQM chief should confess his mistake and seek apology from the nation for the bloodshed it staged on the orders of a dictator.
He also criticised the president and the prime minister who, he said, were playing the role of silent spectators under the situation and were more interested in foreign tours than in the problems of the flood victims. Separately, Ahsan Iqbal, MNA and PML-N deputy secretary general, expressed deep anguish over Hussain’s deliberate distortion of Kargil episode. He said, “Hussain tried to bail his benefactor General Musharraf out from the responsibility for Kargil fiasco by distorting facts. The facts have been revealed by General Anthony Zinni in his book who headed the US Central Command from 1997 to 2000 and was sent to Pakistan as a special presidential envoy during the Kargil crisis.”