KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Motion-Pakistan (MQM-P) chief Farooq Sattar has claimed that Pervez Musharraf requested him to kind a brand new political occasion following the August 22 incident, which he and Mustafa Kamal may additionally be part of.
Talking to the anchorperson on Zari Information’ programme ‘Jirga’, Sattar stated Musharraf doesn’t have any contacts with Altaf Hussain. Referring to his resolution of breaking away from the London-based MQM management, he stated the previous president contacted and backed his September 23 resolution.
“Musharraf allowed native our bodies to work in his tenure; I invited him to affix the occasion,” the MQM-P chief revealed through the programme, including that Khawaja Izhar additionally conveyed the identical to Musharraf on his behalf.
However the former president requested him to kind a brand new political occasion, which he and Mustafa Kamal may additionally be part of, he added.
“Our staff accepted parting of the way with London-based management, however their romance with the identify Muttahida Qaumi Motion remains to be there. They can not go away this identify.”
He denied that Musharraf was displeased with them.
Commenting on the Pak Sarzameen Celebration (PSP) chief, Sattar stated Kamal had a delicate stance earlier than he went to carry out Hajj, however his behaviour modified afterwards. “He additionally took one among our MPAs away.”
The MQM-P chief went on to say that it’s unattainable for his occasion’s activists to simply accept an “exterior” management, nonetheless, such individuals could have a job within the occasion’s session and supreme councils.
He stated the division of Karachi’s management was unacceptable to him, including, “Altaf Hussain shot himself within the foot.”