June 01, 2007	Friday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 15, 1428

ATTOCK, May 31: Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan said on Thursday that there was no future for any political party which believes in violence. While addressing lawyers here at the District Bar Association Attock he said that no power would be able to stop the ongoing massive movement against military dictatorship in the country.

The PTI leader was warmly welcomed by a large number of lawyers, who were chanting slogans against the government and in favour of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

Imran Khan said that if the lawyers’ community, democratic forces and civil society won the ongoing battle then Pakistan would achieve its potential through the democratic system.

Commenting on the Karachi carnage, he declared the MQM a terrorist, fascist and anti-state organisation and criticised the rulers for supporting it. Substantiating his allegations against MQM leaders, he said that there were 17 murder cases against the Sindh governor and over 67 cases against Sindh interior minister.

“Altaf Hussain (the MQM’s London-based leader) and his cronies are promoting the politics of violence but they should know that parties believing in violence have no future,” he said.

On May 12, he alleged, the MQM blocked the roads in Karachi and killed innocent people to prevent the people from reaching the airport to welcome the country’s chief justice. The MQM showed the victims as its workers but was exposed by the electronic media.

He hailed the media’s role since the emergence of the judicial crises, particularly exposing the Karachi carnage. “The symbolic combination of media and lawyers has made Gen Musharraf completely helpless,” he claimed.

Mr Khan said he would definitely go to London on June 9 to file a case against Altaf Hussain and would seek the MQM leader’s extradition and cancellation of his British nationality.