KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Monday passed a bill to rename Altaf Hussain University in Karachi and Hyderabad.
The bill was presented by Pakistan People's Party leader and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Nisar Khoro. Lawmakers of the The MQM-Pakistan also supported the bill that suggested the the two campuses of the university be renamed after Abdul Sattar Edhi and Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah.
The MQM faced cracked down after Altaf Hussain’s August 22 speech in which he made anti-Pakistan remarks. The speech had also led to an attack on a media house last year and caused major defections in the MQM.
The Lahore High Court had slapped a media ban on Altaf Hussain months before the eventful day of August 22 which saw his party split into two factions. Majority of lawmakers of the MQM parted ways with the exiled leadership of the party and named their faction of the party as the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
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