KARACHI: Terming the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan “a political wing of Altaf Hussain”, Pak Sarzameen Party chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday said the Dr Farooq Sattar-led party had resurrected the MQM founder who died after raising anti-Pakistan slogans on Aug 22 last year.

Speaking at a press conference, the PSP chief alleged that the two party activists, who were gunned down in an Orangi Town locality on Monday night, were targeted at the behest of the MQM founder.

Accompanied by PSP leaders Anis Kaimkhani, Dr Sagheer Ahmed and others, Mr Kamal said that Nadeem Maulana and Rashid Lal were working for the betterment of the nation and the country from PSP’s platform.

Lashing out at the MQM-P, the former Karachi mayor said: “Dr Farooq Sattar and company, in the name of MQM-Pakistan, have resurrected the MQM founder ... Altaf Hussain will never die till the MQM [Pakistan] is alive.”

He said his party workers would never have been killed if the MQM-P had not been created.

He said the PSP would stage a protest demonstration outside the London residence of Mr Hussain on July 23.

The PSP chief blamed the incumbent mayor of Karachi for having indulged in corruption in the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and went on to allege that he was sending graft money to the MQM founder in London.

“Altaf Hussain is running his militant wing from London and political wing in the form of MQM-Pakistan,” he said, adding that his party would present evidence to the British high commission that the MQM founder was using British soil for terrorism.

Mr Kamal said that the PSP believed in a peaceful political struggle and its workers would never become part of any “armed struggle or violent politics. “We will never give arms in anyone’s hand.”

But the law enforcement agencies must ensure that no more incidents of targeted killings would occur in the city, he said, adding that his party was ready to render any sacrifice for the restoration of law and order in the city.

Published in Dawn, July 20th, 2017