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Pakistan seals party offices after Karachi violence
Police also lodged a case of treason against Hussain after he said that “Pakistan is a cancer for the entire world” in his Monday address.
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Yesterday, Rangers arrested MQM’s top leadership in Karachi, including Farooq Sattar after the party workers attacked two media houses and Samaa’s DSNG following party chief Altaf Hussain’s address from in London. The protesters pelted stones and resorted to heavy aerial firing that killed one person and wounded others.
After the speech his supporters chanted “Down with Pakistan”. “I was under severe mental stress over extra-judicial arrests and (the) precarious condition of my workers sitting at (a) hunger striking camp”.
Paramilitary Rangers forces sealed the MQM headquarters and media office on Tuesday.
Dr Farooq Sattar said that it will be better for MQM to operate from Pakistan until Altaf Hussain’s health issues are resolved as such statements are becoming ridiculous and earning bad name for only Altaf Hussain but also for the party.
The senior membership of MQM confirmed that they are no longer under the directive of Hussain.
Predicting yet another power struggle within ranks of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) after the party chose to be exclusively operated by its people in the country, Awami Muslim League (AML) Chief Sheikh Rashid felicitated Dr. Farooq Sattar and termed it “a good and political decision”.
In response to Farooq Sattar’s press conference, Wasay Jalil stated that MQM was registered in Pakistan and that Sattar was technically the party’s head, adding that Nadeem Nusrat was the party’s convener and shall continue to serve at his post.
“We totally disassociate ourselves from the violence that took place in Karachi yesterday. It is totally against our policy to use violence to achieve our ends”.
MQM has held influence in the city for years although the party denies links to crime.
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The MQM remains the single largest party in Karachi for decades now and have dominated the political landscape for years sweeping provincial and national elections but since the clean-up operation began on the orders of the centre, the party has come under intense pressure.