PPP has always pitted Mohajirs against Pakhtuns, alleges Kamal

Former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal on Saturday said the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has only one wish, which is for a person in London to boycott the upcoming general elections so that no Mohajir would vote for the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P).

“I want to tell the PPP that in 1993 you also had a government and conducted an operation against us to kill young people. However, no one could eliminate us [the MQM],” said MQM-P Senior Deputy Convener Kamal while addressing the inaugural ceremony of the party’s election office in Aligarh Town.

He said the PPP would have to come to the doorstep of the MQM-P to ask for votes and support. Before PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari comes to the MQM-P to ask for votes and support, he needs to go to the graveyard to seek forgiveness from the MQM-P’s slain workers and leaders, he added.

“We are not selling hatred. The PPP has always pitted Mohajirs against Pakhtuns in Karachi, but now different ethnic groups from Liaquatabad, Sohrab Goth, Keamari and Bin Qasim are gathered and united under the banner of the MQM-P. There is no fighting in this city any more.”

MQM-P coordination committee member Syed Hafeezuddin said on the occasion that the party has been making efforts to make Pakistan a corruption-free country. “We will take every possible step to solve the issues of the people of Orangi, and the MQM will change the history of Pakistan.”

MQM-P senior leader and former IT minister Syed Aminul Haque said the party is getting stronger with every passing day. In the 2018 general elections, the MQM-P was targeted, making an excuse about faults in the RTS (result transmission system), he added.

He said the then prime minister Imran Khan had promised to provide 10 million jobs, but unemployment increased during his government. Khan had also promised to convert the Governor House, the Chief Minister House and the PM House into universities, but he only made tall claims instead of doing something for people, he added.

“We built a flyover in Orangi Town for the convenience of the citizens. We established a campus of the Virtual University. The youth of Orangi can now study BA and MSc there. We need to advance with modern technology. The MQM-P has established an IT lab in Orangi Town through its efforts.”

A day earlier, MQM-P leader Khawaja Izharul Hassan accused the PPP of deliberately snatching jobs from the youth of Karachi under a conspiracy. He alleged that the PPP’s Sindh government had embezzled public money amounting billions of rupees.

Hassan made these remarks while addressing an inaugural ceremony of the MQM-P’s election office in New Karachi. He said the urban areas of Sindh had been badly ignored during the PPP’s 15-year rule in the province as the PPP’s only policy seemed plundering public money. He added that the MQM-P was committed to bringing true representatives of the people forward.

He said the MQM-P took the matter of illegal appointments in the government departments to court and had them declared null and void. On the occasion, MQM-P Senior Deputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar claimed that his party had organised the most number of rallies compared to other political parties for the upcoming elections.

The landlords and feudal lords had forcefully imposed their mayor on Karachi, he said, adding that the time of corruption and bad governance was now over. The PPP was dreaming of capturing Karachi but in reality, the era of looting that had prevailed for the past 15 years was coming to an end, he said.