QUETTA: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Mustafa Kamal said on Monday that instead of doing power politics, his party believed in drawing Mohajirs closer to other communities and helping people without discrimination.

Speaking at the PSP workers convention soon after arriving in Quetta on a two-day visit, he said the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was a threat to national security.

The party’s secretary general Raza Haroon, joint secretary Ataullah Kurd, provincial convener Tariq Tareen and Ashfaq Mangi also spoke. PSP president Anis Qaimkhani was also present on the occasion.

Mr Kamal said that he had joined hands with Ashfaq Mangi and Raza Haroon after resigning from their provincial assembly seats to bring Mohajirs close to other communities.

The so-called leadership of MQM had isolated Mohajirs from other ethnicities and instilled hatred among them for the sake of the party’s politics, he added.

He said that he established his party just one and a half years ago but no other party had gained such support in 70 years.

He said that his party wanted to bring positive change in the face of brutality, adding that about 30 million children were out of schools and millions of people were not getting heath facilities.

“We are struggling to protect 25 million children from the terrorists groups who were denying education and other facilities,” Mr Kamal said.

Published in Dawn, November 21st, 2017