Altaf calls it quits again

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  • MQM chief announces to leave party over defence minister’s remarks which allegedly ‘hurt’ muhajirs
  • MQM threatens to boycott Senate, NA, wants Khwaja Asif to apologise for ‘provocative’ remarks

 

“It is enough, now I cannot lead,” said Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain, exasperated over “the silence” that followed Khawaja Asif’s statement in the National Assembly.

“The whole assembly became a silent spectator when Khawaja Asif ridiculed us,” he complained to the media, announcing that he could no longer hold the reins of his party.

“Although two million Muslims migrated from India after partition in 1947, the defense minister had claimed in an interview that actual ‘mujahirs’ were only those who came from the Indian regions of Jalandhar and Ludhiana,” Hussain said, adding that people from minority Muslim provinces of UP, CP, Agra, Hyderabad Deccan and Lucknow also migrated to Pakistan after the partition.

The MQM’s London-based chief said that he had struggled for 37 years to unite the people who migrated from Muslim minority provinces in India but the defense minister “rejected the sacrifices” of immigrants from those provinces.

Tuesday morning, MQM’s Rabita Committee called an emergency meeting to discuss the future course of action following the remarks from the defense minister and the MQM chief’s announcement.

Later during a press conference, the MQM’s committee threatened to boycott Parliament’s proceedings if the defense minister did not “apologise to the 50-million-strong Muhajir community for hurting their sentiments”.

Rabita committee members Dr Farooq Sattar and Haider Abbas Rizvi demanded prime minister clears government and party policies on the matter. They also demanded Sharif to ask Asif to apologise for his behaviour.

MQM leader Sattar announced province-wide protests from Wednesday against defense minister’s “provocative and foul language against the two-nation theory”. The MQM leaders took offense of the fact that the minister used “fake muhajir” to address the protesters in the Parliament.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. "Drama baaz Husseena". He shall continue this episode as usual. Yesterday Rashid Godail said " There is only one man in Pakistan who speaks for …..". LoL. He should have said "There is only one "Aurat Namma Mard" who is hiding in London to save his skin".

    Military leadership's new role to clean Karachi from dirty mafia like land grabbers, Bhutta Khaur, looter, terrorists and even zarb-E-azzb. No doubt people like me also were wrong to support the extremist terrorists because of some valid reasons but at the same me the writ of the state is the most dear to every Pakistan and Islam loving people. Killing innocent people in the streets and mosques are totally unacceptable. There cannot be state within a state and at the same time there cannot compromised with elite class corruption and land grabbing. We must get rid of corrupt politicians, bureaucrats as well as any one in power and abuser of power and at the same time a healty and real political system is utmost important to take Pakistan towards development and respectable nation in the world era.

  6. "Urdu Speaking" never accepted in Punjabi Pakistan and will never accept in future. I appreciate BANGALI'S who realized that they can't be fit with Pakistan (Punjabi). we should also think that way. thank you everyone and now you can start commenting …….. 🙂

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