KARACHI, Nov 3: The chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Mr Altaf Hussain, has announced that the Central Coordination Committee of the MQM has dissolved the party’s labour division, including all its units, and he has endorsed the committee’s decision.

According to a message faxed on Friday by the party’s London secretariat, Mr Hussain said that the coordination committee had made the decision in view of the current situation of the labour division. He announced the decision in a telephonic address to workers at a general workers’ convention of the labour division.

Mr Hussain also said that the coordination committee had unanimously appointed Anis Advocate, who is a senior colleague at the party’s London secretariat, as the new organiser of the labour division. Mr Anis has been given the task of re-organising the labour division throughout the country. The MQM chief said that responsibilities of the workers had increased manifold since the movement of the party was spreading rapidly in all parts of the country.

He said that elements working against the ideology and principles of the party were giving a bad name to the party’s ideology.