KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain urged the president, prime minister and army chief on Wednesday to stop the so-called nationalist elements of Sindh from using “threatening language” against Mohajirs.

Otherwise, he warned, “people may take matters into their own hands”.

In a video message, he said a “planned conspiracy” was being hatched to fan hatred in Sindh, where the nationalist elements and certain political leaders were using provocative and foul language against Urdu-speaking people and talking about “turning the Indus into a river of blood”.

According to a press release issued from London, Mr Hussain appealed to President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, ISI Director General Lt-Gen Zahirul Islam and Interior Minister Rehman Malik to rein in such elements.

The MQM chief warned that if these elements were not stopped things might go out of his hands. He said his party had publicly asserted that it opposed the division of Sindh, but despite this the so-called nationalists and some political leaders were repeatedly saying that the province would be soaked in blood if there was any talk about its division.

Mr Hussain also warned the elements using abusive language and threats of terrorism and bloodshed that the Urdu-speaking people could not be subjugated by such tactics and they should know that it was 21st century and their “power will be put to test when the time comes”.