MQM-P, PSP slam Altaf’s plea for Modi’s help
karachi — The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM) and the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) — the two breakaway factions of the Altaf Hussain-led MQM — have strongly condemned the Londonbased leader’s recent statement in which he asked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “speak out for the rights of Mohajirs”, reports Dawn online.
Indian media carried a Londondatelined report that quoted Altaf as telling Modi that “our forefathers made a big mistake and migrated to Pakistan, but we were born here, and never accepted as Pakistani or sons of the soil”.
“Mr Prime Minister you should have raised your voice against the atrocities, discrimination and brutality of Pakistani establishment against Urdu-speaking Mohajirs, your own people in Karachi, Pakistan,” he said, complaining that Modi had raised his voice for the people of Balochistan but not for “your own people who lived in India for centuries”.
Muttahida’s coordination committee condemns ‘every nefarious design’ to cast doubt on Mohajirs’ patriotism
However, none of the Indian media reports or the said statement of the MQM founder was posted on the party’s website.
The coordination committee of the MQM-P — which had ousted Altaf about seven months ago following his August 22 anti-Pakistan speech — took strong exception to his statement and declared that “no individual or group has a right to plot against millions of patriotic Mohajirs by calling the Indian prime minister for help”.
“Our ancestors had played a pivotal role in the Pakistan movement and then proudly adopted Pakistan as their country.
The people of Pakistan, especially the Mohajirs, are well aware that Narendra Modi’s anti-Muslim policies are in front of everyone,” it said in a statement late on Saturday. Without naming Altaf, the MQM-P condemned “every nefarious design” to cast a doubt on the patriotism of the Mohajirs and pledged to foil every conspiracy by anti-state elements against the solidarity of Pakistan.
Similarly, PSP leader Raza Haroon condemned the MQM founder’s statement and said that the Mohajir community had already rejected him for his “antiPakistan activities”, as he was an agent of Indian intelligence agency RAW.
He demanded that action be taken against Altaf Hussain under Article 6 (high treason) of the Constitution in the light of a resolution adopted unanimously by the Sindh Assembly. He said that all patriotic persons should come on the same page and help each other to defeat RAW in Karachi.