KARACHI, Aug 28: The Khidmat-i-Khalq Foundation, the charity wing of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, on Sunday distributed cash assistance and relief goods worth million of rupees among a large number of deserving people, including widows and orphans.

A programme in this regard was held at the Jinnah Ground in Azizabad.

Unlike in the past, this time MQM chief Altaf Hussain did not make a telephonic address from London at the programme. MQM sources told Dawn that Mr Hussain was not feeling well these days.

He had not addressed at an Iftar dinner programme hosted by the party at the same venue on Aug 17.

MQM leaders Dr Farooq Sattar and Mustafa Kamal, who is the managing trustee of the KKF, spoke at the Sunday event.

Dr Sattar stressed the need for curbing social and economic inequality in order to make Pakistan an independent and sovereign state.

He said that price hike, unemployment and poverty were not the biggest problems of Pakistan but the inequality between the rich and the poor was the main issues of the country and the nation.

The programme was also attended by diplomats, businessmen and ulema.