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Thursday, December 15, 2011
MQM brought about revolution in urban Sindh: AltafStaff Report
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has said that MQM had brought about the revolution of the poor and middle class in the urban areas of Sindh and it was only MQM that could extend revolution throughout the country.
He said this while talking to a delegation of Pakistani and Afghan journalists who called on him at the International Secretariat of the MQM in London. The delegation included noted TV anchor and journalist from Pakistan Salim Safi, Editor-in-Chief of Afghani news website Khabaryal Mirwaiz and Adil of Voice of America.
Talking to the delegation, Hussain said feudal system was established in the country for the past 63 years and a handful of families from the privileged class had been ruling the country through different political parties.
The MQM was the only political party in the country that had its origin in the poor and dispossessed segment of the society, which was manifested by the fact that all the leadership of the party, including Hussain himself belonged to the middle class, he added.
Hussain said MQM did not give only slogans for empowering the poor and middle class people rather it actually sent educated, honest and capable people from poor and middle class in municipal bodies, national and provincial assemblies and the senate.
The mass appeal of MQM began to spread in other parts of the country as the establishment of the time launched a ferocious state operation against it during which thousands of the party workers were killed, including his elder brother Nasir Hussain and nephew Arif Hussain, he added.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk