MQM-P withdraws from Senate seat race

PPP minister says have acceded to MQM-P's demand for seat of Karachi administrator

KARACHI:

Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has announced its support for Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) candidate Waqar Mehdi for the Senate election allowing him to win unopposed.

In addition, the PPP leadership assured that the administrator of Karachi would be from Muttahida.

In a startling political development, a delegation of the Pakistan Peoples Party led by Sindh Local Government Minister Nasir Hussain Shah reached the MQM-P headquarters in Bahadurabad.

After the meeting, while talking to the media, MQM-P Deputy Convener Waseem Akhtar said, "following a request from our friends from PPP, the Rabita Committee has decided after consultation to withdraw MQM-P candidate from the Senate election."

Shah thanked the MQM leadership and said that now Waqar Mehdi will be elected to the Senate unopposed. Shah termed the amiable resolution of the Senate seat a positive development in Sindh's politics.

"The administrator of MQM will also be appointed in Karachi in few days while the discussion on constituencies is also going on and soon there will be progress in this matter too," he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 3^rd, 2022.