KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has decided to submit resolution against party chief in National Assembly Secretariat, reported on Wednesday.
Iqbal Muhammad Ali has confirmed that MQM will table a resolution against Altaf Hussain in coming one to two days.
Sources told that the party has disowned its chief Altaf Hussain and strongly denounced his anti-Pakistan speeches in the resolution.
On the other hand, Dr Farooq Sattar has also summoned key meeting of Rabita Committee today to discuss amendment in MQM’s mandate.
The participants would also take the issues of changing MQM’s letter head and PS-127 by-election under discussion.
Earlier, Punjab Assembly also approved a resolution seeking a treason case against Altaf. It was demanded through the resolution that the statements he made against the country be declared as a national crime.
The resolution condemned the anti-Pakistan statements made by the MQM chief which made his party’s workers to storm in the office of a private news channel and cause damage to the infrastructure.
Resolutions against MQM chief were also moved in the assemblies of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Sindh which condemned his remarks and demanded action against him.
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Further, action against MQM founder was also demanded in the session of standing committee according to Article-6 of the constitution in the resolution presented by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Dr Arif Alvi.
Participants of the meeting stated that MQM founder’s act of asking for help from India and Israel was also shameful. Amendment in Pakistan Army (Amendment) Bill’s clause 175 sub-clause 3 was also approved in the meeting..
ATC sends 44 MQM workers to prison on remand
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday sent to prison 44 Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) workers, including three party leaders, on judicial remand over alleged involvement in attack on media houses in Karachi on August 22 and charges of treason and terrorism.
MQM leaders Shahid Pasha, Qamar Mansoor and MNA Kanwar Naveed as well as three women were among the 44 suspects presented in the court.
The court ordered investigative officer to present a challan within 14 days.
MQM leader Qamar Mansoor appealed that he was not taken to hospital despite court orders.
He said he was ill and was being made to sit on the ground and requested that the court instructs prison authorities to take note of the matter.
The court, in response, asked Qamar Mansoor for a written request after which it would issue the order.
Nisar urges UK to take action against MQM founder
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday met with British High Commissioner to Pakistan Thomas Drew, urging the UK authorities to take action against MQM founder in light of the reference sent by Pakistan, sources told Geo News.
According to them, the Interior Minister said that Pakistan has sent evidence against MQM founder and British government should take action against him.
Sources further said that British High Commissioner said that the British police were investigating the case and the issue would be resolved in accordance with legal requirements.
Thomas Drew also met with opposition leader Syed Khursheed Shah.
Shah said that the UK should play its role in resolving the Kashmir issue permanently in accordance with United Nations resolutions.
“International community should take notice to brutalities in Indian Held Kashmir, he said this during the meeting in his chamber at the Parliament House.
Other matters of mutual interest came under discussion during the meeting.Khursheed Shah said that Pakistan gives great importance to its historic and friendly relations with the UK.
“We are thankful to the British government for its cooperation in the field of education and health”, Khursheed Shah added.
He expressed the hope that the UK would continue playing its vital role in the world under the leadership of Prime Minister Theresa May.
Pak has not provided enough evidences against Altaf: Thomas
ISLAMABAD: British High Commissioner to Pakistan Thomas Drew on Wednesday said Pakistan has not provided substantial evidence to carry out legal action against Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain in the reference dispatched to London.
“We need solid evidence from Islamabad against Altaf Hussain.
In regard to inciting people to violence in Pakistan] to take a legal action against him,” Drew told Leader of Opposition Syed Khursheed Shah in a meeting at the Parliament House.
Acknowledging the dossier dispatched by Islamabad, the High Commissioner said, “It does not carry enough material that can help in taking any legal action against Altaf.”
Shah urged Drew to convince British authorities to act against Hussain, and said the MQM chief was “causing problems for Pakistan while sitting in London”.
“We demand an immediate and stern action against him (Hussain),” Shah said.
“The MQM chief’s derogatory remarks against Pakistan and anti-Pakistan slogans are totally unacceptable to each and every person here,” added the leader of the opposition.
The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday had dispatched a reference against MQM’s “dissociated” chief to United Kingdom government, accusing the former of inciting people to violence in Pakistan.
The reference talked about Hussain’s “vicious speech” and contains evidences related to inciting people to create chaos, read a statement issued by the ministry.
“Action should be taken against him (Hussain) according to British laws,” said the reference, adding that the said person not only violated British but also international laws.
The UK government was further asked to initiate legal action against those responsible for inciting people to violence in Pakistan.
Altaf Hussain’s diatribe last week took many by surprise who were convinced that state institutions will use the speech as a justification for a strong action against MQM activists.
Parts of the speech that went viral on social media minutes after the violence broke out in the city’s south districts showed that while addressing the MQM workers protesting outside the Karachi Press Club against “enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of workers”,
Hussain not only raised slogans against Pakistan but also called the country “a cancer for entire world”.
“Pakistan is cancer for entire world,” he said. “Pakistan is headache for the entire world. Pakistan is the epicentre of terrorism for the entire world. Who says long live Pakistan…it’s down with Pakistan.”
The MQM supremo later apologised to the military for his ‘anti-Pakistan’ remarks and, in a statement released by MQM Spokesman Wasay Jalil on Tuesday, announced he would be handing over party affairs to the Coordination Committee in Pakistan.
