Ebad no longer affiliated with MQM: Altaf

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Wednesday snapped all ties with the longest serving governor, Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad, saying that he (Ebad) is no longer affiliated with the MQM.
He announced that Governor Isharat-ul-Ebad is no more a member of the party as he resigned from the MQM when he became the governor.Speaking to a private TV the MQM Supremo directed party activists against expecting any cooperation from the governor, whom he referred as a “representative of the federation and establishment”
Altaf said that when Ebad became governor of Sindh he resigned from the basic membership of MQM and he was remained the member of MQM but for last many years, he patiently listened to the foul languages of governor.
The MQM chief said that army converses with Ebad whatever suits them. He said Ishrat-ul-Ebad is not a representative of MQM and urged the media not to portray governor as an MQM official.
Altaf was quiet perturbed over governor’s silence to the raids on MQM’s headquarters commonly known as 90 Azizabad and said that he neither took any notice nor condemned the operations.
He was also sceptical of Ebad’s attitude towards not paying attention to the extra-judicial killings of MQM members and what he called unconstitutional and illegal operations against the party itself. He further said that Governor Ebad did not take any action when his sister’s house was raided nor he agitated when it was said that arms and weapons recovered from the nine zero were stolen from Nato containers.
Ebad started his political careers as member of the All Pakistan Mohajir Students Organisations, MQM‘s student wing while studying in Karachi’s Dow medical college.He first contested in the general election of 1990 on a provincial assembly seat as a Haqparast candidate and became a minister in Jam Sadiq Ali cabinet.
He along with his other fellows also went underground in 1992 to avoid arrest after operation launched against the MQM and a year later he surfaced in London and took political asylum.Ebad became Sindh’s youngest governor on December 27, 2002.