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LAHORE - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) Isteqam-e-Pakistan Convention, scheduled to be held at Qaddafi Stadium on Sunday, was shifted to the Football Stadium at the 11th hour due to security concerns, traffic problems and traders' protest against closure of their shops and food outlets along the outer wall of the stadium.
Security has been kept as the highest priority as the MQM gets ready for its biggest showdown in Lahore. The Punjab government, showing deep concern over

LAHORE - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is using all its political devices and diplomacy to astound the masses and its rivals in Punjab by putting up a successful public show of power in Lahore today.
That is why the party has placed all its major leaders, as well as MQM office bearers in Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to coax the masses in Punjab to attend its meeting titled Istahkam-e-Pakistan. Party sources told Pakistan Today that MQM chief Altaf

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party Secretary General Jahangir Badr has termed the start of politics by Muttehida Qaumi movement (MQM) in Punjab a good omen for the country.
Talking to media after a meeting with MQM delegation at his residence here on Saturday, he said that MQM was working for the deprived and middle class which was in line with the vision of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of PPP.
He appreciated the MQM for its entry to Punjab and hoped it would benefit

KARACHI - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was playing innocent now, said former Sindh home minister Zulfiqar Mirza, but his removal had much to do with the party as MQM chief Altaf Hussain and Coordination Committee Deputy Convener Farooq Sattar had repeatedly demanded that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leadership remove him.
"Altaf Hussain asked President Asif Ali Zardari six times to remove me," Mirza told reporters at a reception for the Pakistan Cricket Team at Chief

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)'s Rabita Committee has criticised the two-rupee increase in public transport fares, terming it as a gross injustice to the people of the city.
According to the committee, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority had increased Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants (POL) prices a few days ago; but the increase has not been withdrawn despite government's assurances. The increase in POL prices and the consequent increase by the public transporters in the

KARACHI - Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza said at a reception in his honour hosted by the Timber Merchant Association here at PPP offices on Thursday that he was disappointed because the Muttahida Qaumi Movement had asked for a very low price to stay in the coalition: (depriving him of) his ministerial portfolio.
Mirza said he had applied for a leave to go meet his daughter three months ago, which had been approved now, a statement that ran contrary to earlier ones where

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP)'s decision to pull out Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza from the provincial cabinet is being seen as a political move to normalise its working relationship with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the province and in the centre at a time when a showdown between the party and the judiciary is expected next week in a number of high-profile cases pending in the Supreme Court.
The decision to pull out Mirza had been taken in

LAHORE - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) held Istahqam-e-Pakistan rally from the party office at the Punjab House to the shrine of Hazrat Ali Hajvairi on Tuesday to gain the street power before its big show scheduled on April 10. MQM Rabta Committee member Saif Yar Khan who has been assigned to look after party's affairs in Punjab led the rally.
Dozens of people on motorcycles, cars, vans and jeeps were carrying banners, party flags and Altaf Hussain's portraits and chanting

KARACHI - A t least 54 vacancies in the Sindh Tourism Department are unoccupied for over a year now due to disagreements between PPP and its coalition partner MQM over job quotas in government departments.
Reliable sources told Pakistan Today that applications were invited by the Tourism Department last year and a large number of youth had applied for the vacancies, however, the department could not conduct the interviews of the short-listed candidates due to political

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has condemned the bomb blast in Lower Dir in which several people lost their lives and many others were injured.
According to a press statement issued on Monday, Hussain expressed his heartfelt condolences and said that the terrorists want to create utter lawlessness and chaos in the country by carrying out such blasts. He said that the terrorists have the wicked plans to harm the national security.
"The brutal and

ISLAMABAD - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) warned the government on Sunday that if rising incidents of extortion in Karachi and increases in the price of petroleum products every month were not stopped, it would be extremely difficult for the MQM to support the government in the upcoming budget, a source privy to the meeting between a MQM delegation and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ministers told Pakistan Today.
The MQM delegation comprising MQM Deputy Convener Farooq

ISLAMABAD - Farooq Sattar has said that Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has asked the federal ministers to review the recent hike in POL prices as public is unable to bear this additional burden caused by the high prices of the petroleum products.
A delegation of the MQM headed by Dr Farooq Sattar called on the Federal Finance Minister Hafiz Sheikh and Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik here on Sunday and discussed the matter.
Talking to media, federal Finance Minister

KARACHI - Expressing deep concern over the growing incidents of extortion and kidnappings for ransom in the city, the MQM on Saturday demanded that the government should take solid steps for protecting the life and property of the citizens and initiate firm action against those involved in these crimes.
In a statement issued by the MQM Coordination Committee, it was stated that despite the claims of the government administration, the criminals are moving in the streets freely and

KARACHI - Expressing deep concern over the growing incidents of extortion and kidnappings for ransom in the city, the MQM on Saturday demanded that the government should take solid steps for protecting the life and property of the citizens and initiate firm action against those involved in these crimes. In a statement issued by the MQM Rabita Committee, it was stated that despite the claims of the government administration, the criminals are roaming freely on the streets of the city

KARACHI - At least 10 people, including an MQM activist, were killed in different violent incidents in the city on Friday. An activist of the MQM was gunned down by unidentified armed men in the Garden area.
Shahjahan, 24, son of Qasim, was shot in the wee hours of Friday and rushed to the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK), where he succumbed to his injuries. The deceased was a worker of MQM Unit 30 of Garden Sector. The body of the victim was handed over to his family after

KARACHI - The MQM Coordination Committee on Thursday said the growing influence of terrorists belonging to the gang war, who are most active at the Burns Road and Urdu Bazaar areas among other areas of the city, is a cause of serious concern. In a statement, the committee said the gang war terrorists have been given a virtual licence to operate freely in the city and are sending extortion slips to traders, businessmen and shopkeepers without any fear of the law The city of Karachi is

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has condemned the suicide attack on the convoy of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazalur Rehman that claimed several lives. Hussain expressed grief and sorrow over the death of the police personnel and citizens, praying for the early recovery of the wounded. He said that several people had lost their lives a day earlier as well because of a bomb blast on the convoy of Rehman in Swabi, adding that the same thing was repeated in