Ruckus during Sindh Assembly session, MQM stages walkout

KARACHI: The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) staged a walkout from the Sindh Assembly session on Wednesday after creating a ruckus and protesting against the provincial government’s stance on not hearing them out.

The MQM legislators demanded that the provincial government had no interest in the establishment of law and order in the province and that the matter should be handed over to the military.

MQM leader Syed Sardar Ahmad urged Speaker Sindh Assembly, Agha Siraj Durrani, to allow their party members to speak and table a resolution over target killing of their party workers, extortions and kidnapping issues in Karachi.

The Speaker refused to allow them to table a resolution which resulted in a walk out from the session by the MQM members while protesting and chanting.

Meanwhile, responding to a statement by MQM MPA Khawaja Izharul Hassan regarding the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) poor performance and handing over law and order to the military, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said that if the army was called in to the city, it would be the MQM that would create the most uproar first.