Petitioner requests court to issue directions for bringing back Hussain and deal with him in accordance with law. PHOTO: FILE
Advocate Fayyaz Ahmed Mehr filed the petition stating that Altaf Hussain is a foreigner, claiming to be the chief of MQM and his demands are against the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and also against the ideology of Pakistan.
On May 12, during Altaf Hussain’s address to his party workers, he had threatened the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), establishment, media, workers of the political parties and politicians and also demanded that Karachi be detached from Pakistan, said the advocate in his petition.
The petitioner termed it a "conspiracy" and a move to destabilise and create unrest in the country.
He said according to the Political Party Order 2002, only an individual belonging to Pakistan or association of citizens of Pakistan can form, organise, continue or set up a political party in the country.
The petitioner stated Altaf Hussain is not a citizen of Pakistan and cannot claim to be the chief of a political party.
He said according to section 5(1) of chapter II of Political Parties Order 2002, Hussain cannot serve as an office bearer of a political party in Pakistan as he is not qualified to be a member of Parliament.
He added that the MQM Chief's speech was anti-state and amounts to treason, therefore he [Altaf] should be brought back to Pakistan and be punished in accordance with the law. He also said that those working for Altaf should also be punished in accordance with the law.
The petitioner requested the court to issue directions for bringing Hussain back to Pakistan to deal with him in accordance with the law. He also urged the court that Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) should be directed to stop all media outlets from giving coverage to the speeches of the MQM Chief.
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From the banning of Youtube to Cases against politictians from other 3 provinces...Lahori courts can do it all
Urdu speaking voted for JI but they could not deliver. Then MQM came and Karachiwallas voted them in on promises of doing away the quota system and bringing open merit system. They could not deliver........ in 30 years. In fact they messed up the education system by inducing our young to cheat in exams, because the rest of Sindh does this.....? Now Urdu speaking, are backing PTI on slogan and promises of equality and merit, good education and economy.
@Raja Islam: For once please tell your source of information on which you base your conclusions and observations.
Man its (BY the grace of ALLAH) sheer skill, hard work, ingenuity, and selflessness of mohajirs that they have earned them this status.
Just two examples are enough: first Dr.Abdul Qadeer, second Dr.Ata ur Rehman. I leave it to you to know waht they have done for this countryl
@Asfandyar: Basically you are blind, basically you are unaware, basically you are new to harsh realities and biasedness of politics, basically you are suffring from inferiority complex, basically you forget the good work MQM is doing all over Pakistan through KKF, basically you are short sighted, therefore I inform you and biased people like you that THERE IS A VERY HIGH STANDARD "NAZEER HUSSAIN UNIVERSITY" WHICH WAS ADMIRED BY DR.ABDUL QADEER
A very strange thing came out of your mind: If any one is not unnecessarily declaring his father's name then it is very safely inferred that the father must be a punjabi !
And what about IK who named the hospital after his mother ? hmmm trapped ?
@Raja Islam: Quota system has changed people's lives, those who scored 70% could not get into medical and engineering colleges, but somebody with a 45% from interior parts of the province did.Hence lowering the standards.
This didnot work the same for Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta.
Intentions were clear to marginalize those who had migrated at the time of partition, fools should be punished like this, perhaps worse
@ashar: Altaf Hussain is way above Bhutto. He has lived a life of sacrifice, did not gain anything but altruistically led the party and produced a dedicated team of dynamic second tier of leaders, interested in serving people and not building business empires of their won
@Asfandyar: I thought that Nazeer Hussain was from Agra.
@Aysha: Actually the quota system is just a bogey.. The Mohajirs have representation in all spheres of life way in excess of their population. Being a Karachiite who has widely travelled all over Pakistan, I know for a fact that Karachi gets a lot more in terms of development expenditure versus the rest of the country.
As far as the police is concerned, the criminals in Karachi are the police.
@ET....Editor .......let me say for the last time that your news paper has an agenda & a visible tilt. You have posted above the whole book written by MHAnsari which prima-facie is against the interest of the Federation of Pakistan.One has been sending comments of substance which were totally ignored because they,perhaps, would not fit into your scheme of things or agenda.If you believe in fairness & independence of press,please let the subscribers know as whom do you represent & whose agenda are you following.I also have hunch that these comments will not get place in this column??
@MHAnsari
Bravo for saying it forcefully and with no holds barred. U hit the nail on the head when u say that despite its shortcomings and occasional high handedness which admittedly needs to be reined in, there would always be the need for an mqm. The vultures are just waiting outside the gate ready to jump in and devour the moment they find mqm gone and the Karachiites defenseless.
@I am a Khan: Well said Khan sahib! Logic and reason is in short supply in our Pakistan!
Vote for one unit.....???
This is pure racial and provisional hatred from Takht-e-Lahore as MQM is the party which stands up against Punjabi tyranny. Takht-e-Lahore still lives in centuries sold mentality of being the capital of India and everyone else should bow to them…or else. Well I have news for you...you are no longer the capital and the world does not revolve around you…get over it.
@Asfandyar: Really. You made my day.
Altaf hussain is actually punjabi, don't you ever notice he never mentions his father anywhere, he made a hall on his mother's name "khurshed begum hall" but nothing on his father? why? his father was actually a punjabi called Nazeer Hussain and was basically from Khanewal Punjab.
@Ricky At least someone has shown courage to take up a case against him!
If you think that you also have little guts (other than talking stupidity), than please do register a case against Altaf Hussain from Sindh, and do share it with us here!
I wonder how long this non-sense will prevail. We are the only nation on earth that never learns from the history. Why this nation never produces a national leader. All of the current leadership on Pakistan, whether someone agrees or not, is ethnic based. A seat here and there in other provinces does not deny this fact. When we will get mature? Why can't we develop the culture of tolerance? Look at the voters trend all over Pakistan. Punjabis have voted a Punjabi. SIndhi voted SIndhis ( rural - urban divided in SIndhi - Urdu speaking Sindhis ) KPK voted for a Khan, and Balochs voted for Balochis. Now why on earth everyone do cry for MQM only. I am the witness of all the elections in Pakistan since 1965. Ayub - Fatima Jinnah elections were marred by bogus voting, Yahya elections divided Pakistan. Bhutto elections also lead him to the death cell, also marred by rigging. In almost every elections there was rigging and its a truth. No province, no city, no village claimed 100% free and fair elections. Why only one city Karachi, is being targeted most? Why only Urdu speaking are told that they are not pro-Pakistanis? Same thing was done with the Bengalis, time and again, till they separated. There was no fault of poor Bengalis at all. We (our leaders) created hatred for them, we propagated against them that they are unfit for army, we use to call them short n blackies. Shame on us. Its Pakistan's third generation which is grown up now, and we never tell them true history of Pakistan. We have also sowed the seeds of hatred in their minds. We are telling them that there is no Pakistani nation, we are Punjabis, we are Sindhis, we are Balochis, we are Pakhtoons.
Where did Pakistan go?
Every party shouts Karachi is a mini Pakistan, its in the clutches of terrorist MQM. We will make it free. Did any of these big-mouthed leaders ever addressed the real issues of Karachi? Did any, so-called national leader, came out telling them I stand by you, I will fight against discrimination meted on you, I will abolish the quota system in Sindh, I will give you the equal rights in finding a government job? Can any one answer that who brought terrorism in Karachi? Do you dare to tell the young generation the truth, that much before the MQM was born, there were fighter wings of every political party in Karachi? Do you remember 'thunder squad' of JI, 'peoples guards' of PPP, 'pakhtoon zalme' of ANP and 'msf' of Muslim League? they all existed in 70's. Where was MQM then? Who was running rein of terror on Karachiets at that time? These all organizations were ethnic based. No one was stood by Urdu speaking Karachiets. Instead they were being used and robbed of their rights. MQM was born only in the reaction to all these atrocities against them. When Karachiets got united and they started hitting back on ethnic politicians and parties, all of them got united and made MQM and Karachiets a target. Karachiets became the target of all the so-called national parties.
For God sake stop this rubbish propaganda against MQM and Karachiets. Is there any statesman in Pakistan who could come out of election politics and lead the Pakistan to the future? Giving all the ethnic majority of minorities same equal rights. Either all of us become Pakistanis and behave like that, or don't call any community an ethnic based. As none of the Pakistani leader can deny his ethnicity. Independents joined and have made PML-N look like a national party. They joined for their benefits, for the personal gains, else PML-N is only a Punjab party. I am not hurting anyone, but please accept the truth. How long we will be telling lies to our generations?
@Aysha: The message was loud and clear albeit with ifs and buts. It was blackmailing the citizens of the very city he has been ruling over for 2 decades now. Please note your or anybody's else's sympathies with MQM are well-respected. To each their own and right so.
On a separate note, suing Mr. Hussain in a Lahore court will only help further ethnic divide and help MQM play the ethnic card even more.
Why the political party and not the chairman be held responsible for unconstittional statements?
Rex Minor
Altaf bhai we are with you, do not worry about anything. The day is not far away, when the unemployed "mummy daddy" burgers will have no place to hide.
@Ricky: Karachi is just good to slog and serve the rest of the country.
In no other province, there is quota system, but Karachi suffers from it
No local policing for Karachi, and now Courts in Karachi rendered inadequate
@Tali: Fully agree...this is all setting the stage for the Federal Republic of Mohajirstan. These fools have no idea what is taking place behind the scenes.......
There should be petition filed in Sindh High Court against those who attacked Supreme Court, were involved in Asghar Khan Case, took foreign money to run for elections from Saudi Arabia and Osama Bin Laden and are responsible for burning of churches in Punjab, and this is just for starters.
If Takht-e-Lahore wants to play racial and provincial card then let’s give it back to them.
I agree that he went overboard in his speech, however not accepting his mandate is also anti-state. Do we need reminding of what happened in 1971 when we (then west Pakistanis) didn't accept Awami League's rightful mandate? May be it's time to take Hamoud ur Rehman commission's report seriously.
@Muhammad Rohaan Sadiq: What a mistake when Karachi was going to destroy itself.
Stay Safe Advocate Fayyaz Ahmed Mehr, MQM thugs might come after you ..... You are a courageous man .... May ALLAH protect you from all harm ! ! !
@Ricky: Wrong! Get your facts right! Islamabad was made the capital of Pakistan because Karachi borders with Arabian sea and that it could have been an easy target for the enemies to destroy both port city and capital at the same time. Thus, destroying the country!
is this petitioner totally illiterate? Firstly Altaf Hussain is BOTH a British and a Pakistani Citizen. He is a dual Citizen of both UK and Pakistan. Secondly, he did not demand Karachi to be separated from Pakistan. He said that if the Establishment are not happy with the mandate of MQM whom the people of Karachi have elected, then they can separate Karachi from Pakistan. He left the onus on them to separate Karachi if they did not respect Karachi's peoples mandate. He did not himself ask for Karachi's separation.
Finally an elected party with majority seats in any area of Pakistan can ask for a referendum to know the people's wishes about whether they want a separate province in that area or if they want a separate country. In real democracies (like UK, USA and Canada), this is no crime at all. But then Pakistan is far from being a real democracy...sigh.
And what Balauch leaders say from different corners of the world is so patriotic and nowhere close to anti-state.
It would be an open and shut case, Mr. Altaf Hussain said if the mandate is not acceptable than detach Karachi, there was no demand but an option provided to those who are untiringly challenging the mandate handed by the people of Karachi for the past 3 decades.
@Tali: Karachi as Bangladesh2?? Some progress.
@Inquisitive Kid: Hey Kid. Stop being logical. You will confuse everyone.
@Ricky: That's the way a'ha a'ha the Superior Judiciary functions. If a court in Punjab issues an arrest warrant, a court in Sindh immediately grants bail. Its a no brainer, a dog chasing its tail. It used to be the case in the Sessions but with Sessions Judges appointed to the SC and High Courts, standards have come down.
I think such petitions and loud words by other leaders against Altaf Hussain and MQM will only create sympathy in the minds of residents of khi who were previously voter of MQM and now voted for change. best thing to do is leave them at their own and they will shrink like PPPP
@Ricky: No one is talking about Sindhis or Punjabis here. The case is against a person who plotted against 'Pakistan'. Plus he is not Sindhi or Pakistani even. Since he is not even a Pakistani national, he can be tried anywhere in Pakistan.
So please stop spreading hatred. It is people like you who have led our nation to this state. He has spewed hate speech and made threatening statements against Karachiites and Pakistanis so he deserves to be tried in court for that, just like every other human being.
If he isn't a Pakistani citizen, how does his speech amount to treason? Not being a Pakistani, theoretically he can't be disloyal to Pakistan, and so its not treason!
@Ricky: Altaf bhai is sindi he is British his choice of national identity.
@Ricky: For the record Altaf Hussain is not Sindhi, he is British.
Even UK Government is unable to do against him. Such a helplessness of UK government in the 21 century is enough for others to keep silence till the goal is accomplished of the mighty countries. Why do not you see highly designed election and even then our people are thinking that people of Pakistan rejected this party and that party...
@Ricky: They are too scared in Sindh.
@Ricky:
MQM rules Karachi. PPP rules Sindh. How on earth do you expect justice from courts there?
Let the party Rock!!!
Well done Advocate Fayyaz Ahmed Mehr....I agree with you...this man can never think of bringing peace to Pakistan or Khi...
Does the province of Sindh have no courts? Why are all the Sindhi politicians tried in LHC not in SHC? These acts only polarize the population further and further. Jinnah chose Karachi as capital but the military dictator thought it otherwise. Now Karachi is not even good enough to try the Sindhis and their cases are heard in LHC!