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Sunday, December 18, 2011
SC tells Altaf to submit affidavit in plea against Zulfiqar MirzaStaff Report
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court directed MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Saturday to submit an affidavit regarding a plea seeking action against former Sindh home minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza for levelling allegations against him.
The plea was filed in the apex court by MQM leader Farooq Sattar. The court asked the MQM parliamentarian to submit Altaf Hussain’s affidavit by December 21.
In November, MQM deputy conveners Dr Farooq Sattar and Anis Qaimkhani wrote a letter to Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to draw his attention towards what they called a plot hatched by Dr Mirza to incite hatred and engineer ethnic riots in Sindh, particularly in Karachi. They requested the CJP to take action against Mirza for maligning the image of Altaf Hussain by lying and misleading the people and accusing him of being a separatist without any substantive proof.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk