Disqualification case: ‘MQM legislators under no obligation to resign’

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement - Pakistan head Farooq Sattar informed the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday that his party dissociated itself with its chief, Altaf Hussain, for his incendiary speech of August 22 and, therefore, its legislators were under no obligation to resign.

Sattar filed this counter affidavit with a SHC bench, headed by the Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, on the behalf of him and other members of the party in the provincial and national assemblies and senate in a petition by lawyer Moulvi Iqbal Haider.

The petitioner had contended that the MQM founder had delivered an anti-Pakistan speech during a hunger strike to death on August 22 but the legislators of the party had not raised agitation against their founder.

The court adjourned the hearing till a date to be decided by its office.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 7^th, 2016.