‘MQM-Pakistan to hold 100-day public contact drive soon’

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan (MQM-P) chief Dr Farooq Sattar on Sunday announced plans to hold his faction’s 100-day mass public contact campaign very soon.

At a presser held at the party’s temporary office in PIB Colony, Dr Sattar said that all local government members and legislators would reach out to the masses in the campaign.In a reference to MQM-Altaf, he said, “Opponents were threatening our workers but we are one party.”

Sattar claimed that MQM was active even after distancing itself from the party’s founding member, Altaf Hussain, following the Aug 22 violence, but the party’s workers continued to be arrested and subjected to extra judicial killings.

He said the workers knew very well how to respond to violence, but it was the party’s leadership that had kept them from doing so.

There was no denying the fact that Karachi faced multiple problems but, "We will leave no stone unturned to resolve the problems of the city and will serve the people," Sattar further claimed.

He stated that all funds available with us would be provided to all union councils in order to spent on repairs, rebuilding of streets and cleanliness of the city.

Asking the party workers to not lose hope and neither lose faith in the party, he said, “MQM Pakistan is registered in the Election Commission of Pakistan under my name. The workers need not be disheartened.”