- MQM-P leader announces a ‘historic political rally’ in Karachi
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) chief Farooq Sattar has tasked two key members of his party to pacify Karachi Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra and bring him back into the party fold, a private TV channel reported.
Vohra switched his loyalties and joined the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) of Mustafa Kamal on October 29. “I was not able to deliver to the people of Karachi,” he said soon after joining the new party. Vohra’s decision to switch loyalties to PSP came as a blow to the MQM-P.
However, Sattar is still hopeful of Vohra’s return to the MQM-P, as the party still has sympathy for the defected leader and it has not yet revoked his party membership. The channel reported that the MQM-P has not yet decided whether to bring a new deputy mayor in place of Vohra.
Following Vohra’s joining of the PSP, Sattar had said that members of his party who have defected to rival political groups could be brought back. He had said that Vohra was worried due to the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) recent case against him, which was one of the reasons that he had defected to the PSP.
“Anis Qaimkhani will help Vohra with the FIA case,” he had said, requesting the PSP leader to take care of his former political affiliate. Talking to the media in Liquatabad, Sattar said that his party to organise a historic political rally in Karachi on November 5 (Sunday). He said that the census count did not include more than 10 million people of Karachi and the conspiracy eventually aims at giving lesser representation to the Muttahida in assemblies.
He accused certain elements of usurping the rights of the political party and said that the leaders were once again were being pushed against the wall. He said that the youth have earned degrees from educational institutions but they have no jobs. About the rally that he announced to be held on Sunday, he claimed that it was going to be the biggest gathering of political workers ever in Pakistan and people from all over the country would participate in it.
