Internal affairs: MQM-P, MQM-L in altercation again

MQM-P’s Sattar lambasts MQM-L’s Nusrat for meeting anti-Pakistan lobby in US

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Friday reacted strongly to the activities of its rival London group (MQM-L) in the United States, calling it a plot to tarnish the image of the patriotic Muhajir community.

MQM-P head Farooq Sattar lambasted MQM-L spearhead Nadeem Nusrat for meeting US Republican congressmen - believed to have an anti-Pakistan agenda - in a presser at the headquarters of his faction of the party in Bahadurabad.



“The [recent] audio messages from London and the activities of Nusrat in US with an anti-Pakistan lobby are highly alarming and matter of national security,” Sattar told reporters.

The MQM-P ‘strongly’ condemns these activities as they are tantamount to hatching a conspiracy against the country and against the Muhajirs, he said, adding that his party won’t allow the London group to use the name of the community.

Referring to the August 22 incident which divided MQM into two factions, Sattar said that the same was being repeated by the London group and the MQM-P categorically rejected and condemned it.

On August 22 last year, MQM founder Altaf Hussain had delivered an incendiary speech against the country which later sparked a nationwide crackdown against the party.

During the presser, Sattar was flanked by his associates Amir Khan, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Khawaja Izharul Hasan, Aminul Haq and others.

He said that the real representatives of the Muhajirs were with them in the country and taking part in parliamentary politics to get them their rights unlike the London group.