HYDERABAD, Sept 2: Sindh National Party chairman Ashraf Noonari has said he may visit the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) headquarters ‘90’ to enter into an alliance with the party in the larger interest of Sindh.

“When nationalist parties can form alliances with PML-N and Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf why can’t we enter into an alliance with MQM which is a party of Urdu-speaking Sindhis,” he said at a press conference at the press club here on Sunday.

He said that MQM should not be pushed against the wall and facts must be accepted. “We are ready to work with MQM so that issues of Sindh can be addressed and solved,” he said.

Mr Noonari said that Pakistan was passing through difficult times with rise in religious extremism. It was strange that Punjabi Taliban were targeting military installations and security officials at the time when Punjabis were part of top brass of military and civil bureaucracy, he said.

He said the PPP government was busy pushing up prices of petroleum products. People were faced with abject poverty, unemployment, poor law and order situation, energy crisis and rampant corruption, he said.

He said that only PPP workers were getting jobs in federal and provincial government departments and the remaining jobs were being sold in Sindh.

The continuing confrontation between judiciary and government would harm the country’s interests, he said.

He said that his party would contest elections and he might enter into an alliance with any political party of Sindh because he wanted to fight for the rights of Sindhi people.

Sindh National Party vice-chairman Shabbir Inqilabi and general secretary Najeeb Ahmed Thebo also attended the press conference.