Ex-MQM MPA for cancelling NICOP cards of party members

HOUSTON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement's former MPA Irum Azeem Farooque, who resigned from her seat of the Sindh Assembly following Altaf Hussain's diatribe against Pakistan, has demanded of the Government of Pakistan to cancel the National Identity Cards for the Oversaes Pakistanis (NICOP) of all those who joined hands with Altaf Hussain's harangue in his video-linked speech in the USA soon after he tendered an apology to the army.

The resigned MPA, who is living in Houston, was talking to The News. She also asked the Government of Pakistan to blacklist all those people who had raised slogans against Pakistan. They have no right to go to Pakistan, she added.

She also said that names of all those who spoke against Pakistan should be put on the Exit Control List (ECL).

Farooque, who was suspended three months ago from the Rabita Committee of MQM, said that being a patriotic citizen of Pakistan, she cannot tolerate such assaults on the country and now she has finally decided to resign from the party and would never look back even if the "chief" calls her.

Farooque had been nominated on a reserved seat for women in the Sindh Assembly by the MQM. She was a vocal member of the party and was a member of the Standing Committee on Cooperatives, Labour and Human Resources and Committee on Rules of Procedure and Procedure and Priviliges in the Sindh Assembly.

This was the second time she resigned as a parlaimentarian, the first was in the month of September 2014 citing the reason that she could not work with opportunists. Now she said that the London Secretariat people were misguiding the MQM chief, who is currently not well. Instead of comforting him, they are playing tricks for their own vested interests.

Irum also took notice of the abusive language used against her by the Houston Chapter incharge and said that she would surely take action against them as nobody in America can violate human rights.