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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
By Fasahat Mohiuddin
Karachi
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) are not parting ways yet, as the MQM believes in dialogue and it hopes that all issues will be resolved soon, MQM Coordination Committee member Mustafa Azizabadi while talking to The News from London on Tuesday.
Azizabadi said that differences existed between the two parties at some levels, but maintained that there was the situation was not such situation that it would lead towards separation.
He said that the PPP leadership should refrain from issuing statements which could cause acrimony and acerbity with the MQM. Statements such as those issued by Federal Information Minister Qamaruz Zaman Kaira regarding MQM benefiting from the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) could lead to ill will between the two parties.
Azizabadi recalled that the NRO was a deal between former president Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto, and its major beneficiaries were she, her spouse Asif Ali Zardari and several key PPP leaders. He said that the MQM had made it clear time and again that all cases against its leaders and activists were of criminal nature, most of which are already being contested.
When asked if President Zardari or his aide Rehman Malik had made any direct or indirect contact after Kaira’s press conference, he replied in the negative, but added that the Rabita Committee was in contact at different levels as per routine.
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