Summary MQM says the order is based on discrimination and is sheer injustice.
KARACHI: Dr Farooq Sattar, deputy convener MQM has said Supreme Court verdict on delimitation of constituencies amounts to pushing the MQM mandate to the wall.
“Only Karachi specific delimitation of constituencies order is unfair and unjust. This order is based on discrimination and is sheer injustice with us.
This verdict runs contrary to law and constitution as no ambiguity exists in law and constitution in this regard”, he said this while talking to media men after filing petitions in SC seeking stay and review of its interim orders on redrawing of constituencies and preparation of voters lists here Monday.
Sattar held that Election Commission had received SC orders on delimitations of constituencies a year before in Karachi law and order case wherein it was laid down that process of redrawing of constituencies be carried out in Karachi as per spirit of law and constitution.
It is strange that the EC could not remember its discretionary powers during the entire period of the year and now it is exercising its discretionary powers all of a sudden, he said.
No redrawing of constituencies could be carried out without holding population census in any country and if this process is to be undertaken under some one’s whim and wish then this process should be implemented all over the country, he demanded.
Responding to a question Dr Farooq Sattar said if EC invites objections from across the country in respect of constituencies and it does not receive these complaints from all the 272 constituencies of the country then we are ready to withdraw from politics.
He said SC should review the illegal and unconstitutional job as no redrawing of constituencies could be conducted without population census.
