MQM should not be pushed to the wall on act of one individual, Farooq Sattar tells NA
Those raising Pakistan Zindabad slogans should not be neglected, Sattar said.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – In his remarks in the National Assembly, MQM leader Farooq Sattar on Friday said that the party disassociated itself from its founder Altaf Hussain following his controversial statement against the country.
He said that the party should not be pushed to the wall on the act of one individual.
The MQM is a pro-Pakistan party and has distanced itself from those who raised slogans against the country, he added.
Sattar said there is now need to embrace those who are chanting slogans of Long Live Pakistan.
Later, speaking to reporters outside the NA, the MQM leader asked the opponents to wait until 2018, the election year, to challenge the party‘s mandate.
CHANGES IN MQM
Briefing the media after emergency meeting on Thursday, Farooq Sattar had said that MQM has decided to add four new members, other than Khawaja Izharul Hassan, to the MQM Rabita Committee including Khawaja Suhail Anwar, Rauf Siddiqui, Syed Sardar Ahmad and Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui.
"We ran MQM in the past and will run it in the future too", said Sattar. He added that some amendments have been made in MQM‘s constitution.
"The previous practice was that we used to take decisions in the Rabita committee and then seek Altaf Hussain‘s guidance as the founder of the party and its chief ideologue", he said.
However, now the constitution has been amended. The article 9-B that compelled the party to seek guidance from Altaf Hussain has been removed from the party constitution now. "We have taken the decisions in our hands now", he said.
Farooq Sattar said that the party believed it was being persecuted despite having rejected those who raised anti-Pakistan slogans.
