Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MPA Kamran Farooq has been taken into custody by paramilitary force on Thursday night.
Reportedly, he was taken into custody from a temporary residence in North Nazimabad area. Farooq is wanted in cases over riots that erupted in the metropolis on May 12, 2007. Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) issued arrest warrant of the Sindh MPA numerous times since last year.
In a statement issued on Friday, the political party asserted that MQM’s MPAs had been wrongly involved in legal cases in the past however, all the leaders were always acquitted.
