Altaf steps down from MQM office, withdraws resignation within hours

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MQM parliamentarians submit resignations to MQM’s Rabita Committee, say it is up to Altaf do decide future course of action

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chairman Altaf Hussain once again announced that he was stepping down from the party leadership on Sunday, only to withdraw the decision within hours “on the insistence of party workers”.

MQM’s top leadership had earlier opted to resign from MQM’s Rabita Committee in a bid to bring Hussain back to the party. A large number of party workers and leaders gathered at the MQM headquarters in Karachi to express solidarity with their party leader, in a successful bid to get him to withdraw his decision.

In a telephonic address to his charged supporters outside MQM HQs Nine Zero, Hussain said, “Once again, I am agreeing to my supporters’ wishes.”

In his message to the party earlier on Sunday, the MQM chief said that he had failed to play his role effectively, while lambasting the Rabita Committee members for ignoring his advice advice on key issues.

“I asked the committee to keep their ways straight…but they did not. Now they are free to choose their leader,” he said.

Later MQM leader Farooq Sattar, while talking to reporters, listed the “faults and mistakes” of the Rabita Committee while adding that it had sought Hussain’s return to the party.

In a bid to show solidarity with the party chief, MQM Central Coordination Committee has submitted resignations of the party’s seven senators, 51 provincial assemblies’ and 24 National Assembly members to the MQM chief with a message stating, “We admit our mistakes and it is up to the MQM chief to now decide a future course of action.”

MQM leader Khawaja Izharul Hassan confirmed that the resignations have been submitted to show solidarity with Hussain.

Sources said that all the departments of MQM have stopped discharging their organisational duties.

It should be mentioned here that last year also, Hussain had announced his resignation from the office of MQM chief, only to withdraw his decision after a few hours on the “insistence of party workers”.

 

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  1. Who are fooling man?. You threaten to resign and next moment take back your resignation. You have done lot of damage to Pakistan, your party and Pakistanis. Let some sane person in your party take over and do some good rather fooling people while sitting comfortably in England.You better come to Pakistan, otherwise London police one day put you in slammer.

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