PSP helping ‘agencies’ nab party workers, alleges MQM

Pak Sarzameen Party spokesperson rejects 'baseless' claims

KARACHI: The Rabita Committee of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has formally blamed the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) of helping law enforcement agencies and providing them with lists of party workers to be arrested.

The MQM alleged that these arrested workers are then being tortured and forced to switch loyalties to PSP.

In a statement, the MQM said its workers were also being given death threats, adding that the case of Riazul Haq and Aftab Ahmed are clear evidence to support these claims.

The party also alleged that the PSP was carrying out these actions on the instructions of its 'masters' who had also directed them to malign and insult the MQM and its chief Altaf Hussain.

Meanwhile, a PSP spokesperson rejected these allegations outright and informed The Express Tribune that PSP was in fact helping locate the missing MQM workers whose families had come to them asking for help.

He said the PSP chairperson Mustafa Kamal had already clarified these allegations in a press conference held on Monday, adding that such propaganda must come to an end.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 13^th, 2016.