KARACHI, Aug 18: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has alleged that a conspiracy was hatched by the Prime Minister's Secretariat for crushing his party and creating a splinter group, if necessary, through an operation akin to the one launched in June 1992.
The allegation came in his telephonic address to the party workers in Karachi on Tuesday night. The address was heard by MQM workers in different parts of the country as well as those of some other countries.
Mr Hussain urged President Pervez Musharraf to take timely action to frustrate the designs of those working against the MQM. He disclosed that in a letter, No: 201/7/DS(S)04/1657, dated Aug 6, 2004, issued by Deputy Secretary (security) Col Mohammad Saeed of the Prime Minister's Secretariat, under the title: "Activities of MQM(A)", some suggestions had been given on the subject.
"On August 7, another letter, No: CCPO/RDR/2487), was issued by the Additional IG Sindh and Capital City Police Officer Tariq Jamil to DIG Operations, Karachi, Fayyaz Leghari," he said, adding that in this letter, all TPOs had been given a reference of a letter from IG Sindh, and asking for a briefing about certain MQM members, who included some big names also.
Mr Hussain was of the view that the conspiracy was aimed at creating some sort of a dissenters' group within the MQM on the pattern of the Haqiqi, formed before the June 1992 operation by the then army chief.
Simultaneously, he said, attempts were being made to pick some people in London and South Africa to bring them to Karachi to create dissension within the party. "A similar group is being formed in Karachi with intention to dispatch it to London with designs against the MQM."
The MQM chief disclosed that a code word 'Bhai Val' was being used to allow entry of selected groups of people in Malir Cantonment. The intention behind such a move could be to cause problems to the MQM which had always supported President Musharraf.
He said that like in the past, certain elements within the ISI, Military Intelligence, Intelligence Bureau and a civilian network had again become active against the party, knowing fully well that their previous efforts had miserably failed.
Mr Hussain reminded the party workers to remain steadfast in their commitment and loyal to the party and its principles.Conspiracies against the MQM, he said, would meet their Waterloo once again. The only condition was unity in the ranks of the party workers.
He asked the workers, whom he called 'my soldiers and my strength' to have faith in the leadership and remain prepared to face the challenges lying ahead. The MQM, a coalition partner, had complained a few months back that a conspiracy was being hatched against it. He said that further details of the designs against the party would be made public soon.
He asked the President and prime minister to locate those involved in this sinister game. Altaf Hussain said that the MQM did not want a certificate of patriotism from anyone.
It knew very well its obligations to the state and was willing to offer supreme sacrifices for the country's integrity, he said, but made it clear that unlike in 1992, it would now resist with all its might all those working against it.
"We are peaceful people and want to see the country grow from strength to strength, but those hatching conspiracies, too, ought to mend their ways. Else, they will probably have to repent later," the MQM chief warned.
