She added: “Where evidence of criminal activity is found we will consult with the Crown Prosecution Service”, the spokeswoman added.
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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) Pakistan’s paramilitary troops shuttered the offices of a political party Tuesday after overnight clashes in Karachi left one person dead and eight wounded, officials said. Previously, the police had said that they were only investigating one speech, after having dropped the previous investigations into incitement. Protests involving the MQM have triggered stock-market gyrations in the past largely due to statements by self-exiled leader Altaf Hussain.
Nisar also said that the British government has been contacted regarding the speech which incited violence in Karachi earlier this week.
Other party leaders distanced themselves from Hussain.
London/Islamabad: MQM leader Altaf Hussain has given up control over the party after coming under widespread criticism for calling Pakistan a “cancer”, the media reported on Wednesday.
“We have approached the authorities in Britain to direct Metropolitan police and Scotland Yard to move against the person sitting outside Pakistan to try him over the incitement to violence”, he shared.
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had also contacted senior British officials and discussed Hussain’s inflammatory speech which caused unrest in Karachi.
“Do not take Bhai’s (i.e. Altaf Hussain) name”, Vohra was overheard by SAMAA’s smart microphone.
The MQM has run Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial capital, for decades and is one of the country’s biggest political parties, though its influence is largely confined to the densely packed megalopolis and surrounding areas. In 2014, he was arrested in connection with money laundering and released on bail. “Anti-Pakistan slogans should not have been chanted”. This time however, it seems Altaf Hussain has gone too far. The demonstration passed off peacefully and the police said that the protestors had every right to air their views peacefully.
It has has faced accusations of racketeering, abduction, torture and murder. She said in a statement: “We mustn’t allow British citizens to use the United Kingdom as a base to incite violence against our allies”.
Akhtar was elected after a turbulent two days in Karachi politics that centred on his party’s exiled leader, Altaf Hussain. “This message is for there (London) and it is for here”.
He said the best way to pay homage to the land, is to serve it with aplomb.
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Hussain issued an apology Tuesday for his comments. Senior MQM leader Farooq Sattar and other leaders said that in future the party would operate from Pakistan alone and that all decisions would be taken by the leadership in Pakistan and not from London from where Hussain has controlled the MQM for years now.
