Pakistan

Altaf advises critics to follow legal course

Altaf Hussain says anyone who has objections to the appointment of the new NAB chairman should follow legal course.

Express October 11, 2010

KARACHI: Chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain has said that if anyone has objections to the appointment of Deedar Hussain Shah as the new NAB chairman, he should follow the legal course.

Addressing a ceremony of the Khidmat-i-Khalq Foundation (KKF) by telephone from London, Hussain said a revolution was knocking on Pakistan’s doors. “Millions of flood victims are starving while political and religious parties are busy in blame games on TV talk shows and debates on political change in the country,” he said. Hussain added that the MQM has focused only on providing maximum relief to hundreds of thousands of flood victims.

He said the MQM is a political party that has its own manifesto, ideology and political philosophy and wants reforms in every sector in the country. He said the MQM has been serving the people for the last 32 years.

Hussain said that his party is the only political party in the country which launched elaborate relief and rescue activities in all parts of Pakistan to help the flood victims. He said the worst floods in the nation’s history left millions of people homeless, devastated thousands of residential units and swept away a large number of villages.

Hussain said that they would establish an honest and merit-oriented system in the country to provide all facilities to people without any discrimination.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 11^th, 2010.

COMMENTS (6)

watchdog from UK | 13 years ago | Reply Altaf advises critics to follow legal course Well how much respect he and his disciples have for the law of the land?

Liaquat Ali | 13 years ago | Reply A modern and legal state is noting but a bunch of laws, starting from the constitution all the way down to court procedures. When a state acts against its people on legal basis, whoever responds to the state actors in an illegal manner is subject to dual offense. One for the original offense, and the other for illegally acting against the state actors. However, when a state acts against its people on an illegal basis, whoever responds to the state actors in any illegal manner is absolved from wrongdoing because his inalienable human rights rights were violated by the state actors. Most of the pending cases registered against Karachiites were between 1992-1999. This was the time when the illegal operation was carried out on the people of Karachi. Those cases were illegal to start off with. Such cases cannot be under the NRO. They just need to be dissolved.