PSP meeting: ‘December 23 public gathering to unite all Pakistanis’

Our doors are open for Farooq Sattar, says Mustafa Kamal


Our Correspondent December 09, 2016
Kamal says govt, state and other political parties also responsible. PHOTO: NNI

HYDERABAD: Reiterating his party's objective of uniting all Pakistanis irrespective of their religious, sectarian and ethnic associations, Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairperson Mustafa Kamal said that the December 23 public meeting at Pucca Qila will set off the movement towards that end.

"History will remember the people who will participate in that meeting and those who will make it successful," said Kamal while speaking to the media at Hyderabad Press Club on Friday.

After organising the party's maiden workers' convention, attended by over a thousand people in Latifabad town last month, the party seems poised to organise a huge public meeting at Pucca Qila — the heartland of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) for the last three decades.

Kamal stuck to his position when asked to comment on the possibility of a merger of PSP and MQM-Pakistan.

"Our door is open for [MQM-Pakistan leader] Farooq Sattar and also for all the other people. We are ready to embrace all," he replied.

"But we won't take PSP to them [and make it a part of MQM-Pakistan]."

He emphasised that MQM-Pakistan's mandate originally belonged to MQM-London's chief and the party's founding leader, Altaf Hussain. "This is dishonesty [on part of MQM-Pakistan]. One shouldn't cheat. Opposition should be done in a principled way."

Kamal rejected the notion that the Urdu speaking people in Sindh should continue to engage in a political struggle with other ethnicities.

"I will be the biggest enemy of Muhajirs if I tried to cut them off from rest of the Pakistanis," he said. "How is it possible for me to tell Muhajirs that Sindhis, Punjabis, Pakhtun and Baloch are your enemies?"

Referring to Islam, he said the religion does not allow dividing Muslims on the basis of their language, nationalities or cultures.

Kamal was also accompanied by Anis Kaimkhani along with other party leaders.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 10th, 2016.

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