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LAHORE - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Muslim League-Q have joined hands to develop a "strategic partnership leading to a new political alliance" in the greater national interest. The agreement came in a meeting after a joint address to party workers at the Muslim League House, where a 15-member MQM delegation met the PML-Q leadership on Sunday.
The delegation led by Dr Farooq Sattar was accorded a warm welcome by the PML-Q leadership. MQM leaders who were part

LAHORE - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) made an entry in the political arena of Punjab on Saturday under a new association with the PML-Q to grab position in the local body system, as well as in the provincial assembly.
Sources from both political parties said MQM leaders, including Farooq sattar, Babar Ghouri, Raza Haroon, Wasay Jalil, Qamar Mansoor, Saif Yar Khan and Iftikhar Randhawa would attend a luncheon hosted in their honour by PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat

ISLAMABAD - The Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) will make an all-out effort for the treatment of Zeshan Zahid, a patient who needs heart transplantation, Farooq Sattar, Deputy Convener of the party, said on Wednesday.
Zeshan, 22, currently under treatment at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, is the only son of Neelum Baji, a worker of Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N). "Acting on the direction of our leader Altaf Hussain, I am here to assure that MQM will contribute to

ISLAMABAD - The en masse resignations of the federal ministers enabling Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to form a new "lean and mean" team triggered an intense lobbying for the slots in the new cabinet with President Asif Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani making a last ditch effort to convince the MQM and JUI-F to join the federal cabinet.
The resignations of the federal ministers, ministers of state and advisers were sent to President Zardari for acceptance. However, they

ISLAMABAD - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Wednesday presented a 9-point agenda for economic reforms in the country with taxation of agricultural income at the top. Addressing a press conference, senior party leader Dr Farooq Sattar said the purpose of the agenda was to bring reforms in taxation system, adding that it particularly demanded the government impose agriculture tax.
Sattar claimed that by applying this agenda, the government could get additional resources of Rs

ISLAMABAD - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) team on Tuesday held separate meetings with the PML-N and MQM to garner support for the implementation of the reformed general sales tax (RGST) at the federal and provincial levels.
The IMF team, consisting of Middle East and Central Asia Department Director Masood Ahmed, Mission Chief for Pakistan Adnan Mazarei and Resident Representative Paul Ross, held talks with PML-N and MQM leaders. Both parties linked their support to

KARACHI - Urdu-speaking people were barred from attending the Muttahida Qaumi Movement's National Solidarity Public Meeting on Sunday, and as per party orders, none were allowed inside the Jinnah Ground. MQM chief Altaf Hussain had prohibited the participation of the Urdu-speaking population of the metropolis - ostensibly to promote an impression of the MQM being a pan-nation party.
Urdu-speaking worker and supporters were advised by the party hierarchy, as per Hussain's orders,

PESHAWAR - Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has called upon the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to recognise the existence of Pashtuns in Karachi, otherwise peace in Karachi would be nothing more than a "dream".
"Dialogue is the only way for restoration peace in Karachi, but we should be recognise each other, otherwise the restoration of peace will remain a dream," ANP chief said at Nishtar Hall while addressing a gathering to mark the 5th death anniversary of Khan

GUJRANWALA - Former Federal Minister and PML-N leader Ghulam Dastgir Khan has criticised the MQM for supporting martial law in the Punjab and added that the ethnic party should concentrate on the rule of law in Karachi and adopt better attitude to become a mainstream political party instead of promoting target killings.
While talking to PML-N USA chapter office-bearer Nasir Ahmad Butt, Khan expressed deep concern over target killings in Karachi and MQM's alleged involvement in

ISLAMABAD - Altaf Hussain's demand for martial law in Punjab triggered a frenzied standoff between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the National Assembly on Tuesday with furious parliamentarians from both sides trading barbs and forcing the deputy speaker to adjourn the House before time.
Responding to MQM chief Asif Husain's point of order in which he had alleged that the PML-N had turned Punjab into a police state, PML-N's Ahsan

KARACHI - Criminal activity has risen by 109 percent in Punjab, therefore the province should be handed over to the army to curb the rising violence and terrorism, members of the MQM Rabita Committee said on Sunday.
They also alleged that criminals in Punjab were being protected by industrialists and landowners in the province, while the police were busy torturing and killing innocent citizens. They said that the situation was particularly alarming in those areas of the province

ISLAMABAD - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Saturday submitted a bill in the Senate's Secretariat seeking amendment to the constitution on taxing agricultural income. MQM Senator Tahir Hussain Mushhadi submitted the bill on behalf of his party.
The bill has sought that all agriculture income over Rs 600,000 annually should be taxed in order to broaden the tax base in the country. The bill seeks amendment in the fourth schedule to the constitution whereby tax on agriculture,

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid has offered the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) its services in Punjab to inflict political damage to the PML-N.
A source in the PML-Q told Pakistan Today that in Friday's meeting between the leadership of the PML-Q and the MQM at nine zero, Shujaat Hussain asked MQM leaders to gear up their political activities in Punjab and assured them the PML-Q's full logistic support against the PML-N.
Addressing a joint press conference after

KARACHI - The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) will cooperate completely with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in Punjab, in the hopes that the MQM will cooperate with the PML-Q in Sindh, PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Friday during a visit to MQM headquarters, Nine-Zero.
Over a conversation via telephone, MQM chief Altaf Hussain concurred and said that the two parties have and will work together for the sake of the country.
"As long as patriotism is

KARACHI - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has announced holding a large public gathering at the Lal Qila Ground in Azizabad on January 30 to be attended by people from all ethnic and cultural entities. On the occasion, party chief Altaf Hussain would address everyone by telephone from London.
Members of MQM's Coordination Committee Yousuf Shahwani, Ashfaq Mangi and Gulfaraz Khan Khattak on Thursday said in a press conference held at the Khursheed Begum Memorial Hall that the

ISLAMABAD - The government continues to sit on the resignations of the JUI-F and the MQM ministers despite the fact that they had stepped down a month ago, expecting that its two estranged allies might rejoin the federal cabinet.
The resignations seem to have gone lost somewhere on the road between the Presidency and the Prime Minister's House. The PM House says that the resignations have been sent to the Presidency while the presidential spokesman denies receiving them.