The list of the persons against whom cases have been registered is longer, he pointed out. Hussain spoke over phone and videos featuring the audio of his speech went viral on social media. He stated that the Muttahida chief spoke against Pakistan on Indian soil, further stating that the MQM chief flew to India on the invitation of Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). Pakistan is the epicentre of terrorism for the world… MQM party workers took to streets yesterday after Hussain, in an address from London, incited them to storm media outlets and chant anti-Pakistan slogans during the hunger strike.
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Mr. Sattar said it would be better for the MQM to operate from Pakistan until Altaf Hussain’s health issues are resolved.
During the show, former MQM leader said he always tried to maintain the peace between party and the government, but he failed. “I was under severe mental stress over extrajudicial arrests and precarious condition of my workers sitting at hunger-striking camp”.
“From the depth of heart, I beg pardon from the Pakistani establishment”, he said in a statement on Tuesday. At least one person was killed and many others were injured after activists of a political party clashed with police and ransacked a private television channel office in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi.
The crackdown in Karachi is a continuation of a campaign that started in 2013 to tighten control over a city that generates nearly half of Pakistan’s revenue.
The ARY Chief Executive Salman Iqbal said that the MQM workers fired inside its office located in Medina Shopping Mall.
According to reports, the staffers of Neo TV station, whose offices are located in the same building as ARY, were also beaten up.
Karachi is home to numerous ethnic groups and has been hit by clashes between rival ethnic and political factions in the past two and a half decades. Several vehicles, including a police van and motorcycle were as set ablaze by the mob.
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Mustafa Kamal pointed out that the people of urban area of Sindh gave 85 percent mandate to the MQM but the situation in their respective areas deteriorated gradually. In recent years, relations between the military and the MQM have been strained. The hunger strike was launched to protest the disappearance and arrest of their workers by the paramilitary rangers.
