MQM-Pakistan hints at launching movement for a new province

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MQM-Pakistan hinted on Saturday at launching a movement for a new province in Sindh.

“The people who migrated to Sindh from Hindustan are the real heirs of Sindh,” Amir Khan, the party’s senior deputy convener, told supporters at a public rally at Karachi’s Bagh-e-Jinnah on Saturday night.

“Sindh main hoga kese guzara, aadha tumhara aadha hamara [How will we continue on in Sindh when half is yours and half is ours]” Khan said. “There were only two provinces in Pakistan before 1970 – East Pakistan and West Pakistan,” MQM-P’s senior deputy convener said.

He lashed out at the PPP leadership and said they have destroyed urban Sindh in the name of provincial autonomy. “We will not tolerate it,” Khan yelled. “We will not accept Larkana’s slavery.”

Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, the party’s convener, also spoke to the crowd and asked them to wait for few more days. “We will snatch our rights,” Siddiqui vowed. “We won’t allow you to rob us,” he said.

“You have already divided Sindh, we are just making announcement today,” Siddiqui said, criticizing the PPP leaders.

Photo: MQM-Pakistan

The party lost its offices after a controversial speech of its founder Altaf Hussain on August 22, 2016. It contested the 2018 election without its founder and could only win six National Assembly seats.

The MQM-P wants its offices back. “I am speaking to the establishment here… lift this undeclared ban on us and return our offices,” Nasreen Jalil, another party leader, urged.

“For how long will you keep us deprived of our basic rights?” she asked the PPP leadership. “Strengthen the MQM, we will protect the rights the people of urban Sindh.”

Wasim Akhtar, the city’s mayor, claimed that he wanted to work with the Sindh government to resolve the issues of Karachi but didn’t get any positive response. “I wrote letters to the Sindh chief minister and called him but didn’t get any positive response,” he told the party supporters. “The 18th Amendment doesn’t mean that you make a state within state.”

The mayor also criticized Mustafa Kamal, the chairperson of the Pak Sarzameen Party and a one-time MQM loyalist, and advised him to go back to Dubai. “Don’t ruin your children’s future,” he said. “I will speak with Malik Riaz, go back to Dubai.”

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