Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Saturday said that his party wanted Pakistan to progress according to the vision of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
He was addressing an election meeting in Railway Ground Sukkur via telephone.
Altaf said that the liberal, democratic and progressive political parties in Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa did not have the freedom to run their election campaign while conservative parties supporting Taliban have complete freedom to hold election meetings and rallies.
He asked if such elections could be called free, fair and transparent.
Altaf said that a conspiracy was being hatched to bring the conservative parties and supporters of the Taliban in power.
Altaf invited the armed forces to join hands with the MQM, ANP and PPP in combating the terrorists involved in bombings.
“Today, the armed forces of Pakistan, law enforcing agencies and progressive political parties are facing difficult times. Liberal parties are on the target of barbaric terrorists. Bomb attacks and firing at the election offices, rallies, and meetings of the MQM, the ANP and the PPP continue unabated.”
In the end, the MQM chief announced names of the MQM candidates from Sukkur.
