Summary After securing win in LG polls MQM leaders now have to decide on who they want to appoint as Mayor.
LONDON (Dunya News) – Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders Thursday reached London to conduct a consultation on the Mayorship decision. The MQM leaders arriving in London included Dr. Farooq Sattar, Waseem Akhtar and Senator Nasreen Jalil.
After securing a landslide victory in the third and final phase of Local Government (LG) elections in Sindh, MQM leaders now have to decide on who they want to appoint as Mayor for Karachi and Hyderabad.
Talking to the media at London Airport, Dr. Farooq Sattar stated that the Mayor appointed for Karachi, Hyderabad and Mirpur Khas will be from MQM and they had arrived in London to decide on the matter after a consensus.
Sattar said that MQM wants to turn these cities into one of Asia’s cleanest places. Sattar further stated that MQM’s performance in the last phase of the Local Body polls was better than before.
Earlier, MQM leader Haider Abbas Rizvi had stated that the new Karachi mayor will not allow corruption. Rizvi said that MQM will struggle on constitutional and legal fronts to empower the mayors of Karachi and other cities of Sindh.
Rizvi also stated that instead of empowering the mayors, the 2013 local body act took the powers away from them and that MQM has already rejected the act
