Ruling class wants to keep Pakistanis divided on basis of religion and sect, says Khalid Maqbool

The ruling class wants to keep the Pakistani nation divided on the basis of beliefs and sects so that its interests stay protected.

Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said this on Sunday as he spoke to new entrants in the party.

According to a statement issued by the MQM-P, hundreds of people belonging to different linguistic groups living in Mehmoodabad, such as Hazara community, joined the party during a ceremony at its election office, Pakistan House.

Dr Siddiqui said the mindset of the political parties formed in the name of national rights was ethnic, while the ideology behind public movements which started over ethnic rights had always been national.

He commented, “In Pakistan, there are only two nations: one rich and the other poor.”

Welcoming the new party workers, he said the MQM-P was against the feudal system of the country.

MQM-P Deputy Convener Anis Kaimkhani said the party had become more organised and it was a political force stronger than before. He predicted that the party would clean sweep the general elections against all ethnic political parties in the urban Sindh.

Meanwhile at another event, the party’s senior deputy convener and former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal said that in the present era, survival of the nation lied in obtaining rights through democratic means and in accordance with established principles.

Kamal was speaking at an event held in connection with digital registration of voters in Surjani Town. He said the party’s digital media team had done a unique work of registering thousands of MQM-P voters online in a few hours.

He lambasted the Pakistan Peoples Party saying that its leaders had accumulated wealth through

corruption.

The MQM-P would surprise the PPP in the upcoming elections, he remarked.