MQM’s female MPA resigns over anti-Pakistan slogans

KARACHI: Member Provincial Assembly, Sindh, Irum Azeem Farooqi, has resigned from the MQM and the Sindh Assembly following the anti-Pakistan slogans by the MQM chief during a telephonic address to party workers. “I have resigned from the membership of both the MQM and the Sindh Assembly. They had suspended me for three months, but I heard the anti-Pakistan slogans. For me everything is Pakistan. We are Pakistanis. You cannot force us to raise slogans of Muradabad,” she told Geo News over telephone.

On Twitter, Irum Azeem said she had decided to quit two days ago but had not disclosed her decision due to the hunger strike by the MQM workers at the Karachi Press Club. But later in a tweet, she urged party workers to “refrain from taking law in their hands”. “This is not a solution. Please no violence,” she said.