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MQM’s Sindh Assembly walkout on AJK seats polls put off
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)’s members of Sindh Assembly staged a walkout in protest against the putting off of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) seats’ polling in Karachi.Sindh Assembly went into session here today with Speaker Nisar Khuhro in the chair, when the MQM members of the assembly led by the party deputy parliamentary leader, Faisal Sabzwari chose this occasion to ventilate their grievances and express their protests against the postponement of tomorrow’s polling on AJK seats in Karachi by staging a walkout from the assembly.
Later talking to the media, Faisal Sabzwari said that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) wanted that MQM should give up contesting on anyone of the two seats. He said that it was absolutely against the democratic norms to use Election Commission and Sindh IG for getting the elections deferred on these two seats only on the pretext of bad law and order situation.
On the other hand, efforts by the Sindh assembly PPP members Jam Mahtab, Ayaz Somroo and Murad Ali Shah to bring back the hurt MQM members into the assembly through talks failed.
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