KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain lashed out at "referees in television talk shows" and questioned analysts talking about groupings within the party as to how the MQM managed to break a 36-year-old record of collecting animal hides during Eid.

Altaf, in his telephonic address to activists of the MQM's social wing, said that 'a spectacle' was being created on talk shows and it was being said that the party had been weakened due to internal groupings.

He added that during the shows, instead of providing any analysis, verdicts are handed out with "some shown the green card while others are shown the red card".

The party chief alleged that some people were hoping for MQM's dismemberment.

He also criticised his own party leaders for not portraying an appropriate stance and said: "What’s the point of saying anything to others when our own party leaders cannot express their points of view during talk shows."

Hussain said that “ethnicism had divided Pakistan and if any one claims that all is well in the rest of the country then they are lying.”

The MQM chief also alleged that the establishment had instigated 'other ethnic communities to fight against the Mohajirs' and reiterated his demand for the formation of new administrative units in Sindh province.