PESHAWAR, Jan 14: Chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain has asked the Puktuns to join his party for acquiring their rights.

In a telephonic address at the inauguration of a party office at Kohat road here on Sunday, Mr Hussain said the MQM was struggling for the empowerment of the deprived people, and the Puktuns should join hands with it for the realisation of this goal.

He said the MQM wanted to provide due honour and dignity to poor and average classes, by bringing an end to feudalism and Sardari system in the country.

He drew a parallel between MQM's struggle and those carried out by prominent Pukhtun leaders Khushhal Khan Khattak and Bacha Khan as well as poet Rehman Baba.

Deputy Convener of Muttahida Qaumi Movement Farooq Sattar, MNA, other prominent leaders of the party and Tehrik-e-Masawaat chief Musarrat Shaheen were also present on the occasion.

“MQM’s message is the message of love, peace, fraternity and end to extremism and terrorism,” said Mr Hussain.

“Now that an MQM office has been opened here, workers will work for spreading the party message in every nook and corner of the province,” he said.

He said the MMA played with religious sentiments of the Pukhtuns and gave them nothing.—APP