KARACHI, May 18: Chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Altaf Hussain has called upon the downtrodden and oppressed, who form 98 per cent of the country’s population, to unite against the two per cent oppressive forces to emancipate the society from hatred, animosity and mistrust.

In his telephonic address to a meeting of his party workers here on Wednesday, Mr Hussain said that the Prophet of Islam had given us the universal message of equality of mankind. But, he regretted, feudal lords were perpetuating the discriminatory system.

He asked the people of Sindh and other parts of the country to see through the conspiracy of ‘divide and rule’, and urged the downtrodden to unite against exploitative forces.

“If the exploitative forces can unite to protect their vested interests, why cannot the poor do the same to protect their rights?” He said that the MQM was pursuing a policy of strengthening the hands of the poor and the downtrodden.