KARACHI, March 31: Founder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement Altaf Hussain on Friday emphasized the need for establishing the rule by the poor and the middle class for pulling the country from its present morass.

“Ridding the country of the contemptuous jagirdari system and hold on the country of a selected few will have to go. There is no magic wand solution to the crisis Pakistan has been facing since long,” he told a meeting at the party’s international secretariat on Friday, he said.

According to a communication received in Karachi, Mr Hussain lamented at the sorry state of affairs which was still way behind in the race for progress because of the absence of basic facilities, like health, education, economic imbalances and even improper industrialization.

Those who ruled the country for the last 58 years have been responsible for miseries of the people. They cared more for power and pelf than for the welfare of the poorer sections of the society. Non-development expenses remained beyond control, while development allocation kept declining in real sense of the word. Double standards were made the order of the day.

He said a number of political parties were now posing themselves as sympathetic to people, but most of these parties remained oblivious to peoples’ needs when in power.

They now think that they will help raise the standard of living through a magic wand which tantamount to fooling the countrymen.