NewsOctober 29 , 2017
Huge setback for MQM-P as Karachi Deputy Mayor Vohra joins PSP
KARACHI: MQM-Pakistan's Arshad Wohra, Deputy Mayor of Karachi, on Sunday joined the Pak Sar Zameen Party.Speaking to the media at the Pakistan House, the headquarters of the Mustafa Kamal-led party, Arshad Vohra said he has decided to resign from his position as he was unable to serve the people of Karachi as promised.
Vohra thanked the people of Karachi for electing him to the office of Deputy Mayor and deplored that he couldn't deliver.
"We could have done a lot for people of Karachi, but we didn't."
He said a large number of people were willing to join the PSP, rejecting the impression that he was forced to switch loyalties.
Commenting on the development, MQM-P chief Farooq Sattar pointing to the youth standing alongside him said, for us these all are Arshad Vohra’s, adding that we are here to serve the masses not to snatch others mandate.
It is being considered a major blow to the party, days after Farooq Sattar said his party lawmakers would resign from the assemblies if policy of forcing his party members to quit the MQM-P continues.
Analyst Mazhar Abbas said news of rifts between Mayor Waseem Akhtar and Vohra were already making rounds and we may see more big names joining Kamal’s PSP in the next few days.Speaking at the press conference, Senior PSP leader Anees Qaim Khani asked Farooq Sattar to fulfill his promise and resign from assemblies. He also announced that the PSP would contest on all the seats vacated by the MQM members.
The PSP was founded by former Karachi Mayor and MQM renegade Mustafa Kamal last year months before the police and Rangers carried out a crackdown against Altaf Hussain's party.
The crackdown was launched after MQM supremo incited his workers to violence and made anti-Pakistan remarks at a speech on August 22 2016 outside Karachi Press Club.
Courtesy www.thenews.com.pk
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