Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Wednesday handed over powers of reorganisation, policy making and decision making to the central coordination committee, a day after senior party
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Wednesday handed over powers of reorganisation, policy making and decision making to the central coordination committee, a day after senior party leaders sidelined their London-based supremo.
“Keeping in view statements made by MQM leader Farooq Sattar and other MQM members, I hand over powers of reorganisation, policy making and decision making to the Rabita committee,”
Mr Hussain said. “I will continue to focus on improving my health in line with the coordination committee’s suggestions,” MQM spokesperson Wasay Jalil’s statement shared on Twitter quoted
Mr Hussain as saying. The MQM chief claimed he was “under acute stress” due to back-to-back ‘incidents’, upsetting news and working on party business day and night, Dawn reported.
The party chief also apologised for hurting the sentiments of Pakistanis due to his earlier anti-Pakistan remarks.
Mr Hussain, leader of Mutthaida-e-Qaumi Movement — the single largest party in Karachi — was accused of raising anti-Pakistan slogans at a protest rally that turned violent.
Several journalists of various media organisations were attacked by the MQM activists. The protesters pelted stones and resorted to heavy aerial firing that killed one person and wounded others.
Pakistan on Tuesday charged Mr Hussain with treason for his inflammatory speech that prompted his party members to distance themselves from him. Senior MQM leader Farooq Sattar on Tuesday said: “From now on, decisions will be made in Pakistan.”
Meanwhile, MQM’s Waseem Akhtar, the imprisoned politician who is almost certain to be the next mayor of Karachi, will run the teeming metropolis via “video link” from his prison cell, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
