KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain, on the demand of party workers, has withdrawn decision to quit from party leadership, Geo News reported.
Altaf Hussain made this decision while addressing thousands of party activists in Karachi and Hyderabad simultaneously here Thursday, asking them to remain happy as he will go with them.
Earlier, Altaf Hussain said that after today (Friday)
ByTICKER
January 30, 2015
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain, on the demand of party workers, has withdrawn decision to quit from party leadership, Geo News reported.
Altaf Hussain made this decision while addressing thousands of party activists in Karachi and Hyderabad simultaneously here Thursday, asking them to remain happy as he will go with them.
Earlier, Altaf Hussain said that after today (Friday) he will no longer have any affiliation with the party.
“My address to Hyderabad University tomorrow (Friday) will be my last,” Altaf Hussain said in a statement issued from London.
Altaf added that he had never been accepted by the Establishment as he was not a Waderha (feudal).
Speaking to party workers, office-bearers and leaders, who gathered at MQM headquarters Nine-Zero following his announcement, he warned the rulers against a possible repercussion if 'extra-judicial killing' of his party workers continued in Karachi.
He said the MQM workers can also resort to violence as a repercussion of their extra-judicial killing in Karachi and other parts of the country.
The MQM chief said that the party had no reservations over formation of a review committee to oversee ongoing operation in Karachi to eradicate terrorists and criminals.
He said he has no objection to arrests of the MQM workers by the law enforcement agencies. However, the arrested party workers should be presented before courts of law as no one has the right to take the law into his own hands, he added.
Hussain sought workers’ permission to resign from his post and asked them to choose any other leader. However, the party supporters refused to do so and chanted full-throated slogans in his support and to prove their allegiance to the MQM chief.
Altaf Hussain later took back his decision of resigning as the party chief, much to the delight of his supporters.
He said that three million muhajirs sacrificed their lives for the creation of Pakistan. He said the immigrants from India supported Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah in the 1964 general election against military ruler Gen Ayub Khan.
Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah responsible for the ‘extra-judicial killing’ of 36 party activists.
