Karachi violence: Durrani dismisses MQM request to convene Sindh Assembly session

Some of the 43 signatures did not match. MQM MPAs to appear before speaker to submit application again.

Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani, on Friday, dismissed Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) request to convene a Sindh Assembly session because signatures of few MQM members did not match, Express News reported.

After a day-long debate to call the armed forces in Karachi, MQM had submitted a requisition in Sindh Assembly on Wednesday, requesting the speaker to summon a session on this issue.

MQM parliamentary leader Syed Sardar Ahmed and MQM’s deputy parliamentary leader Khawaja Izharul Hassan moved an application with the signature of 43 MPAs of their party.

Out of those 43 signatures, a few did not match the actual ones, owing to which the speaker of the Sindh Assembly dismissed the requisition and informed Opposition leader Faisal Sabzwari.

Durrani further added that if MQM submits another application, then the assembly would deal with the matter as per the law.

Commenting on the issue, MQM leader Khwaja Izharul Hasan said, “We have 48 members and we needed 42 signs, but we got 43 signs. If few signs did not match the actual ones, they could have called up that member and asked him.”

He said that the party members will appear before the speaker on Monday along with their id cards and submit an application again.

According to the rules and procedure of the provincial assembly, after the requisition is submitted, the speaker has to summon the session within two weeks.