Daily Times

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan met various parties on Monday, including its main corrival Pak Sarzameen and MQM-Haqiqi, and invited them to its all parties’ conference (APC) which would be held tomorrow.

The leadership of MQM has reached various political, national and religious parties including Paksar zameen,MQM-Haqiqi, Jamat-i-Islami, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Pakistan People Party ,Sindh United Party, Pakistan Muslim League-Functional and others and invited them for the conference .

MQM-Pakistan’s Amir Khan said that the main purpose of calling all the parties to join hands at one platform is to discuss various issues including empowering local government system, uprooting corruption and to make Pakistan a stronger and prosperous country.

Responses of Political parties: PSP’s leader Anis Advocate, while accepting the invitation said, “Principally we have decided to attend the moot tomorrow, hoping that the MQM-P will hold a clear stance against the traitor of our country when everyone would be celebrating day of deliverance.”

Referring to MQM’s founder Altaf Hussain, he said, “the province and Karachi will only progress when every individual and political party cuts its nexus from the traitor of the country” till the name ‘MQM’ remains in the politics of the city, the London-based MQM founder will continue to get oxygen”.

All the other parties including, MQM-Haqiqi, PakistanTehreek-i-Insaf, Pakistan Muslim League-Functional, Jamat-i-Isalami, Sindh United Party accepted the invitation for the All Parties Moot and expressed their feelings for joining hands for the good cause of the country.

MQM-P’ leader Aamir Khan met with his associate Afaq Ahmed at his residence and invited him to join the gathering which would find a solution to Karachi’s sufferings, Afaq Ahmed while accepting his invitation said the leader ship has come for solving Karachi issues where majority of Mohajirs reside and would look forward to it.

Meanwhile, MQM leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui met with PPP’s leader Nisar Khuhro and invited him to the conference to which Khuhro replied that they would get back to the MQM-P leadership on their invitation request after consultation within the party in 24 hours”.

While speaking on the occasion, MQM-P leader Amir Khan reiterated their complete separation from the party’s London faction.

MQM-P’s Faisal Subzwari said that his party aspires to take ahead the minimum common agenda of political parties. “We won’t do politics of violence; we won’t pursue the politics of Muhajir killer-Muhajir victim”.

Siddqiui, in response to a question, said that other than MQM-P, no party has disassociated itself from its leadership for the sanctity of the country.

MQM-P’s media In charge has said that the purpose of organizing the All-Parties conference on this particular day of August 22nd is to show our complete disassociation from the London-Based MQM founder Altaf Husain as the anti-state speech on this date by Altaf Hussain caused violence and much loss to the country.

22nd August marks a year’s passing since MQM founder’s controversial anti-state in a speech at Karachi Press Club. In which he called Pakistan as “cancer for the entire world” resulting violence in the country.

After the incident, the party disassociated itself from its founder to create its own faction naming with senior leader Dr Farooq Sattar as its leader.

A day after the incident, Sattar had reiterated that MQM will operate from Pakistan and that all the party’s decisions will now be taken from its leadership based in the country.

Published in Daily Times, August 22^nd 2017.