PESHAWAR, Oct 28: Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Dr Farooq Sattar has said that his party would field candidates in all parts of the country. He was talking to reporters on Saturday at the residence of former president Ghulam Ishaq Khan, where he had come to condole with family members of the former president. He said the MQM was getting positive response from the people in Punjab while its workers were also busy in different districts in the NWFP. He said committees were being formed at the district level to strengthen the party at the grassroots level.

About the centre, he said the coalition government was working according to a proper mechanism and faced no threat. The next general elections, he said, would be contested on the issues of feudalism and provincial autonomy.

Before the election, he said, the government would take initiatives aiming at ending the feudal system.

He said prediction on MQM’s electoral alliance with any political party in the coming polls would be premature. About return of former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto to the country, the parliamentary leader of MQM in the National Assembly said that both were citizens of Pakistan and had right to come back.

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