Why are politicians silent about the killings?: Altaf Hussain
“If there is no Pakistan, then there is nothing else, no politics, estates or someone’s kingdom.”
KARACHI:
Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has hit out at political parties for not speaking out against the killing of innocent people, and only being busy flinging mud at each other in a scramble for power.
At a time like this, people should think about whether they want to fight or forget their differences, unite and oppose terrorism. He appealed for unity, while criticising political parties for mudslinging while Pakistan was, as he put it, encircled by threats. In a speech at the party’s International Secretariat in London, Altaf said that the country’s major political parties should first work on saving the country from the danger it is in and then do politics. “If there is no Pakistan, then there is nothing else, no politics, estates or someone’s kingdom,” Altaf said.
The party chief said that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement wanted a system of justice in which people of all religions and schools of thought would have equal rights and no one would be dealt with unfairly and one that would end the oppression of women and grant them equal rights.
Altaf has reiterated these issues in the past two weeks and highlighted the massacre of Shias throughout Pakistan in a number of targeted attacks. However his criticism of political parties may stem from the frustration his party has felt towards the Pakistan Peoples Party for dragging its feet on a decision on which local government system to legalise.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 5th, 2012.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has hit out at political parties for not speaking out against the killing of innocent people, and only being busy flinging mud at each other in a scramble for power.
At a time like this, people should think about whether they want to fight or forget their differences, unite and oppose terrorism. He appealed for unity, while criticising political parties for mudslinging while Pakistan was, as he put it, encircled by threats. In a speech at the party’s International Secretariat in London, Altaf said that the country’s major political parties should first work on saving the country from the danger it is in and then do politics. “If there is no Pakistan, then there is nothing else, no politics, estates or someone’s kingdom,” Altaf said.
The party chief said that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement wanted a system of justice in which people of all religions and schools of thought would have equal rights and no one would be dealt with unfairly and one that would end the oppression of women and grant them equal rights.
Altaf has reiterated these issues in the past two weeks and highlighted the massacre of Shias throughout Pakistan in a number of targeted attacks. However his criticism of political parties may stem from the frustration his party has felt towards the Pakistan Peoples Party for dragging its feet on a decision on which local government system to legalise.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 5th, 2012.