HYDERABAD: Strongly re­act­ing to Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s warning that it could vigorously work towards creation of a province of Mohajirs due to changing attitude of PPP, the Qaumi Awami Tehreek (QAT) on Monday gave a Sindh-wide strike call for Thursday and the Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party (STP) appealed Sindhi-speaking members of the MQM to quit the party.

QAT general secretary Anwar Soomro and senior vice president Abdul Qadir Rantho speaking at a press conference at the Palijo House in Qasimabad that the MQM would come out with the same threat whenever the two coalition partners were at odds, a crackdown on MQM activists was launched or the MQM chief faced some problem in London.

The MQM had repeatedly been targeting Sindhi people and raising slogan of a separate province to provoke ethnic tension, they said, adding that people had now realised that it was a game being played by the PPP and the MQM as part of an international agenda being pursued by them jointly.

STP chairman Dr Qadir Magsi speaking at an emergency meeting at the party’s head-office here on Monday advised the MQM to stop talking about dividing Sindh. He urged Sindhi- and Urdu-speaking people to quit the MQM for seeking to divide the province.

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2014