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Farooq Sattar attacks British newspaper
Sattar says allegations that differences within MQM may be reason behind killing of Dr Imran hurt MQM supporters.
MQM leader and MNA Dr Farooq Sattar. PHOTO: FILE
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader and MNA Dr Farooq Sattar wrote a letter to British newspaper Guardian to register the party’s protest against an article it carried quoting sources claiming that Dr Imran Farooq’s death was a result of rows within the MQM. The article was published on the Guardian’s website on September 26 and in the newspaper the following day.
Sattar denied the allegation, attributed to unnamed sources, and said that those who say that Farooq was at odds with the MQM may have a “political axe to grind”. He claimed that “there were no internal divisions in the MQM which might have led to his murder. Dr Imran Farooq was the founder member of the MQM and remained the party convener of its central co-ordination committee until his last breath.”
Condemning the article, Sattar said that it has hurt millions of MQM workers and supporters.
Farooq’s murder on September 16 in Edgware, north London, is being investigated by the Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism branch because of the political dimension to the killing, the Guardian reported. He was attacked on his way home from work.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2010.
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NOW the MQM is taking the semi-serious route of confronting the culprits instead of whining in the wrong channels and barking up wrong trees.
However, while printing the letter the Guardian managed to stiff it to the MQM.. At the end of the letter they wrote “Dr Farooq Sattar MQM deputy convener and four others,” as if they couldn’t care less who Dr. Sattar were, and his opinion was as good as four others.
The fully serious route is to write an opinion piece and get it published in the Guardian, instead of wasting their time with the Pakistani TV channels. Yapping away in front of moronic Pakistani TV anchors who ask four questions in one breath is not a replacement for the carefully crafted written word.Recommend
How did this paper find out the secret which almost every Pakistani already know. Suprise suprise!Recommend
Thought provoking: Dr. had to wrote a letter from Karachi, leaders in England/ London are too busy serving the nation i suppose. HeHeRecommend
DerSpiegel, NyTimes, and Guardian are the same people that call your ISI “rogue” and especially emphasize on Pakistan when the Wikileaks documents were published. I hope we can believe these naught news sources :)Recommend
Dr. Farooq is the 2nd in command after the death of Dr. Imran Farooq – Its an organizational matter.Recommend
I’m sorry Ali, but I’m afraid you won’t be able to intimidate the Guardian into silence as you would have liked to do (and your political exemplars have done repeatedly in Pakistan) had it been a Pakistani paper printing anything controversial about the MQM’s murky little world.Recommend
What if it is proved that this murder was due to internal strife, what if the late Dr, was planning to join another party, why was he not at the Birthday bash, why he had been sidelined by the party….will Her Majesty government arrest its “one and only” citizen?Recommend
This is what I wrote about Guardian’s journalistic slight of hand on September 27, 2010 http://liaquatali.blogspot.com/2010/09/guardians-journalist-slight-of-hand_27.htmlRecommend
That’s what we call, CIVIL disagreement, i am not sure why the title of this articles uses the wording “ATTACK”. is tribune trying to report like “Tabloid” ?Recommend
This is an unwritten rule of the media to use the violent language when it comes to the MQM. Note the language of Faisal Raza Abdi at 4:50 onwards. THIS is the reality of the Pakistani politics and especially that of PPP, which I have noticed since 1977. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcUi1SE9OeA&feature=related
The fish rots from its head. I have never seen any high level MQM spokesperson to talk like this in my life.
Any political party wishing to operate in Pakistan needs to be able to defend its leaders and members. In the case of the MQM that defense is promoted as offense, and the offense by the Jamaat-e-Islami, ANP, PPP, etc. is presented as defense. Case in point, May 12, 2007.
It is about time the MQM started acting in the media offensively, instead of forever being on the defensive in front of the moronic TV anchors who are playing around with politicians to get salary boosts.
From the MQM’s side, Haider Abbas Rizvi is the one to watch. He speaks with knowledge, authority and confidence. THAT is what is needed in the machismo political culture of Pakistan.Recommend
@Ammar
Send me your email address and I will send you a whole dossier of thrashing one of the MQM media men got from Mr. Hameed Haroon, Chief Executive, Daily Dawn of Newspapers in 2004.
Mr. Haroon did the right thing. Not because the MQM man was threatening him. Quite the contrary.
The MQM man got the rightful thrashing because he was whining, which one must not do in front of the media.Recommend
Thousands of MQM supporters and common urdu speaking were killed but no body was charged and if any other was killed always blame comes on MQM this practice should be stopped and people should consider them also human , similarly the case of Imran farooq putting blame on MQM to misguide the investigation, demoralize the MQM supporters and protect the killer. Now we should under stand how reliable the British media is after the Gulf war and most recently on cricket match fixing scandal.these sighting are enough to under stand how much they are reliable.Recommend
Take legal action against British newspaperRecommend