MQM requests PM to take notice of party chief's ID card issue

Dissatisfied with interior ministry, MQM leader says party will continue to stage protests until matter is resolved.

KARACHI: "Getting ID card and passport are the fundamental right [sic] of every Pakistani," stated a placard placed in front of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Faisal Subzwari while he was speaking to the media outside the Sindh Assembly on Saturday.

The MQM has been unhappy with the way the interior ministry has handled the issue related to party chief Altaf Hussain's application for a Pakistani identity card and a Pakistani passport.

Today, Subzwari told the media that it is a shameful how Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was dealing with the whole situation. He requested that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the federal government should take notice of this and demanded that those responsible should be held accountable.

On May 12, the interior ministry had stated that the MQM chief had not followed the proper procedure regarding the National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis (NICOP) and passport application. To this, MQM leaders have expressed disappointment and deep frustration.

The MQM representative further told the media that the interior ministry should be magnanimous and should show respectable behaviour.

Subzwari added that the MQM will continue to stage protests until the matter was resolved.