PTI leader asks Gen Raheel to ban MQM

Ali Zaidi says MQM was created by Gen Zia and further facilitated by Gen Musharraf

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf senior leader Ali Zaidi on Monday, in a letter to Gen Raheel Sharif, called upon the army chief to ban the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.

Zaidi demanded of the army chief to take strict action against the MQM, including imposing a ban on its activities and holding accountable all those who are still supporting the organisation.



“I wrote this letter to the COAS in an individual capacity like a common citizen of Pakistan -- not on behalf of my party,” Zaidi, who is currently in Dubai, told The Express Tribune by phone.

“This is the first letter which I have written. There is a series of letters which I have to dispatch to authorities concerned, including the chief justice of Pakistan.”

“It is not a hidden secret that the MQM was created by Gen Muhammad Ziaul Haq and further facilitated by former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf,” Zaidi’s letter reads.

“Therefore, by default, the responsibility to clean up the mess created by your predecessors sadly falls on your shoulders.”



The letter stated that there is no doubt, that recently Sindh Rangers under the leadership of Major Gen Bilal Akbar has done a tremendous job in restoring a relative peace to Karachi and apprehended miscreants and criminals of the MQM and all other parties plus banned religious outfits.

However, in the wake of Altaf Hussain’s speeches and Dr Farooq Sattar’s press conferences, thereafter, the time has come to take serious action against the MQM and that includes a ban and to hold accountable all those who are still supporting them.



“Press conferences by Dr Farooq Sattar and his associates are total eyewash to hoodwink the Pakistani public.

Please, do not let these criminals insult your/our intelligence by trying to separate the MQM London and the MQM Pakistan. They are all the same.”

Published in The Express Tribune, August 30^th, 2016.