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Saturday, September 10, 2011
No super power can disintegrate Pakistan: Altaf* MQM chief says he believes in unification of Sindh province
* Says MQM can join coalition with PPP for lasting peace in Sindh
KARACHI: No super power can disintegrate Pakistan, if Pakistan Army, Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) join hands on one platform to defend it.
MQM Chief Altaf Hussain stated this at a press conference at Khursheed Begum Secretariat Azizabad via video-telephone-link on Friday. “There was an international conspiracy to divide Pakistan,” he said, adding, “I may be killed during defending my country because I am a hurdle in plans of dividing Pakistan.”
“So to stop such a cruel act by foreign forces, I direct all of my workers from today to be on the disposal of the Pakistan Army to defend the country free of cost, anytime and anywhere,” he declared. During the press conference, Altaf also showed maps of the region in which Pakistan was divided.
Altaf asked the people, especially the new generation, who did not agreed with the ideology of the MQM should form political parties for the change of system in the country, as he never wanted popularity in this regard.
Altaf said that the MQM could join the coalition with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) for the sole cause of lasting peace in Sindh.
He told a questioner that his party would support the PPP in the greater interest of the country. He indicated that “I remained an obstacle in forming a ‘Muhajir Province’ as I always believed in unification of Sindh province but if things changed I cannot hold the pressure of my party workers and they (MQM workers) will be free to work for that.”
The MQM chief also said that his party men had prohibited him from returning to Pakistan. Without mentioning any names, Atlaf criticised the act of Zulfiqar Mirza who had placed the holy Quran on his head during his news conference. Altaf said that the Holy Quran is for reading and obtaining knowledge.
On the Charter of Democracy (COD), he said that both the PPP and Nawaz Sharif had failed to implement it and termed it a document of false promises.
Altaf appealed to President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Chief of Army Staff General Pervez Ashfaq Kayani and Director General Inter-Services Intelligence Agency General Ahmed Shuja Pasha to see the video containing killings of the Urdu-speaking people abducted from private buses after ascertaining their identities. The innocent people were taken to Lyari where they were subjected to brutal physical torture. He reiterated his supported to the Army. by staff report/app
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk