KARACHI, Sept 6: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has launched relief activities for help of victims of Katrina, through all its units in the US, said a statement issued here on Tuesday.

It said a meeting, chaired by the central organizer of MQM, Ajaz Siddiqi, and attended by all MQM units in the US, discussed the arrangements for relief activities for Katrina victims and expressed grief over the destruction caused in US by Katrina.

It was decided in the meeting that a relief fund would be established to collect special relief funds and to arrange transportation of victims to safe places.

It said that the MQM had also set up a base camp in Astrodome near Houston.—APP