KARACHI, Dec 9: Altaf Hussain, chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, said on Sunday that the MQM believed the missing party workers had been brutally killed and their relatives should stop waiting for their return.

Speaking at a gathering at Khurshid Memorial Hall, Azizabad on Yom-i-Shuhada over telephone from London, he said that if law enforcement agencies of a country had been given a licence to kill innocent citizens, the national solidarity of that country was not only destroyed but the existence of that country also came in question, said a press release issued from MQM office.

He asked the relatives of the missing workers not to wait for their beloved ones as “we believe they are dead.” He said: “I do know the grief of losing loving relative as I had lost my brother Nasir Hussain and nephew Arif Hussain on Dec 6, 1995 after they had been kidnapped and killed mercilessly.”

He was of the view that a murder was murder, be a civilian perpetrated it or police, law enforcement agency or ranger’s official, both were equal before the eyes of law and they should get punishment accordingly.

Paying rich tribute to the martyrs, he said the all the success that party had met were all because of the sacrifices of its workers and their sacrifices would not go in vain. Their blood would bring about a revolution and the movement would reach its destination.