KARACHI, Dec 7: Leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement have criticised the Pakistan Muslim League for adopting a resolution against their party at the Punjab House and advised the major coalition partner to act with maturity instead of using strong-arm tactics against its allies.

In a statement issued from the party’s international secretariat in London, MQM coordination committee deputy convener Tariq Javed and members Syed Saleem Shahzad and Mohammad Ashfaq urged the PML to recognise the MQM as its coalition partner.

They said that if the MQM was not allowed to function politically in Punjab and its supporters were hounded and subjected to police excesses, the party would have the right to protest against such policies.