Why is govt silent after BBC report on MQM: Qureshi
Qureshi asked PPP that does their offer to join Sindh govt still stand after these allegations.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said allegations against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in BBC report are very serious and the federal government should not stay mum on it.
“We ask the government, what have you done? People of Pakistan want to know what the reality is,” Qureshi said while talking to media in Islamabad.
The BBC, citing an "authoritative Pakistani source", said members of Pakistan s Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party, which has its power base in the southern city of Karachi, had received military training at camps in northern and north-eastern India over the past 10 years.
The BBC report said MQM members had admitted receiving the aid during formal interviews with the British authorities who are currently investigating the MQM over money-laundering after a huge quantity of cash was reportedly found at party offices and leader Altaf Hussain s home in London.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi asked a question from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leadership that recently they invited MQM to join the Sindh government but does their offer still stand after these serious allegations.
"Will the MQM file a defamation suit against BBC News they claim these allegations are baseless," he asked.
He said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi openly admitted that they assisted Mukti Bahini against Pakistan but our Foreign Office remained tight lipped on this issue which is highly disappointing.
Commenting on deaths due to heat wave in Sindh, the PTI leader said that people of Sindh are feeling neglected. More than 1000 people of Sindh died in the heat wave and neither PPP nor federal minister visited them.
“Instead of going to people they are flying to Dubai and Federal Govt is also focusing on Punjab and neglected people of Sindh,” Qureshi said.
