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PPP invites MQM to join Sindh govt
KARACHI: A Pakistan People’s Party delegation arrived at the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) headquarters on Sunday in a bid to woo their former coalition partners to join the incumbent government in Sindh.
The PPP delegation comprising Rehman Malik, Pir Mazharul Haq and Makhdoom Jameel-u-Zaman held talks with MQM team comprising Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Dr Nusrat, Nasir Jamal and Syed Sardar Ahmed.
Sources said that the MQM expressed its reservations over government apathy in carrying out action against Lyari gangsters.
Speaking to media after the negotiations, former interior minister Rehman Malik said that peaceful transition of power in the country became possible due to President Asif Ali Zardrai and Altaf Hussain.
"I invite MQM to join government to serve people of Sindh,” he said and added that Pakistan could not afford politics of confrontation.
Malik dubbed the ongoing killing spree in Karachi as random killing and said MQM workers were being killed on daily basis.
He said that the PPP-MQM alliance was needed to maintain peace in Karachi.
Speaking on the occasion, MQM senior leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said that the meeting between the two sides took place in a pleasant atmosphere. He, however, added that any decision to join the Sindh government would be taken only after seeking opinion of the MQM workers and supporters.
Siddiqui said that the MQM had conveyed its reservations to the PPP delegation during the meeting.
Demanding an end to extra judicial killing of MQM workers, he said that he also discussed issue of eight missing workers of the party.
Courtesy www.geo.tv