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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Sattar backs president’s bid to bridge PPP-MQM divide
LAHORE: President Asif Ali Zardari has taken up a major challenge of establishing hearty relations between the workers of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, MQM Coordination Committee Deputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar told Daily Times on Wednesday.
Asked about the recent comments of President Zardari regarding PPP workers' reservations regarding the party's alliance with the MQM, Sattar said that the president must have observed his workers' viewpoint over the issue.
"Mixed government or coalition government is not just the name of a government-level coalition, but it is the name of a hearty alliance and harmony among workers of the coalition partners," he said.
Sattar said, "It is very good that Zardari thinks so and has taken up the challenge."
He hoped that the president succeeds in achieving his goal of establishing cordial ties between the workers of both political parties. Earlier, the MQM leader visited a photographic exhibition organised by the Pakistan Association of Photojournalists (PAPJ) at Alhamra.
He said the people of Punjab had started raising their voices against cruelty and injustice.
Sattar said the riots in Karachi were being fuelled by land grabbers and criminal groups, who were fanning sectarianism on the basis of lingual divide.
He said the middle class, which was the backbone of the society, was being suppressed. "If we want development and harmony in the country, we have to bring forward new faces from this class," he said. staff report
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk