KARACHI, Nov 16: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement is likely to announce on Sunday its support for either one of the contenders for forming government at the centre as well as in Sindh.

The decision, which the sources said would probably be in favour of the PML-Q, would be announced after the deadline the party gave to the government for cleaning the “no-go areas” ends at 9pm on Sunday.

Deputy convener of the MQM coordination committee, Dr Farooq Sattar, indicated this while talking to journalists at an Iftar party here on Saturday.

“The MQM coordination committee will announce its decision at a news conference on Sunday”, he said. It will be two days ahead of the elections of speaker and deputy speaker of the national assembly.

Farooq Sattar said the MQM had held talks with all the quarters concerned and the party would support whosoever accepted its demands. He spelt out various grievances of the Muttahida, including the no-go areas, and said it was in the interest of all that those problems were solved prior to the transfer of power.

According to the sources, the authorities have succeeded in getting vacated a good number of houses that were alleged to have been forcibly occupied by the activists of the rival group, since the June 1992 operation.