KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) will initiate a political change in Sindh by forming a government not just in Karachi but also in other cities of the province, party’s senior deputy convener Dr Farooq Sattar said on Sunday.
Sattar was speaking to the public gathering organized by the MQM-P at the Bagh-e-Jinnah ahead of the General Election 2024 scheduled on February 8.
He said the MQM-P will liberate Sindh from injustices. “The oppressed people of the province will put a mark on kite in the February 8 elections to achieve real freedom,” he said.
Sattar said that those talking about level playing in the elections should feel ashamed over the rampant power loadshedding and all-time high electricity tariff. “Our children were failed in the matric and inter exams. We would have to protest outside the board offices,” he said.
He said while the MQM-P recovered the missing persons in the census, other missing persons belonging to the city should also be recovered and justice must be served to people. He added the Bengali people should be given Pakistani identity cards.
MQM-P’s senior deputy convener Mustafa Kamal warned that if the election results in Karachi were manipulated, this gathering of people will enter the homes of those who rigged them. He said the MQM-P will get sureties of their opponent candidates forfeited in the upcoming polls. He asked PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari that if his elders could not become prime minister without the support of MQM, then how would he.
Kamal said that police booked MQM-P workers on the insistence of PPP leader Dr Asim Hussain, adding that if justice was not served to them, the party will head to North Nazimabad for a protest movement.
He said the water for Karachi was being stolen and sold by the tanker mafia in collusion with the government. He said that the boycott call given by the MQM-London faction was the result of two billion rupees deal over selling the mandate of Mohajir community.
“Our three constitutional amendments should be implemented so that the whole of Pakistan can progress.” He added, “The time has come that this city will be built again by MQM representatives”.
MQM-P convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said that Karachiites have kept the honour of the nation intact by converging in such large numbers at Bagh-e-Jinnah. “Today, the results of February 8 elections have been announced.”