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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Malik assures Altaf on Hyderabad status* Government cancels Agha Siraj’s appointment as KWSB chairman following MQM’s protest
Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: Interior Minister Rehman Malik met Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain in London on Tuesday and forwarded President Asif Ali Zardari’s message to him, a private TV channel reported.
Malik assured Altaf that the government would maintain the current geographical status of Hyderabad.
Sindh Governor Ishratul Ebad, Farooq Sattar, Babar Ghouri, and several other MQM leaders were present in the meeting.
Withdrawal: The MQM also protested Agha Siraj Durrani’s appointment as the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) chairman, another channel reported.
Following MQM’s protest, the government cancelled the notification for the appointment of Durrani as the KWSB chairman.
Earlier, Sindh Chief Secretary Fazalur Rehman had issued the notification to appoint Local Bodies Minister Durrani as the board’s chairman.
Sources said the core committees of the PPP and the MQM had earlier agreed that the next board chairman would be from the MQM, but Durrani belonged to the PPP, the channel said.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk