61st birthday: Altaf says most of PTI, PAT demands are legal
Asks CJP to give orders for release of ex-president Pervez Musharraf
KARACHI:
The government should accept the demands of Dr Tahirul Qadri and Imran Khan as most of their demands are constitutional and legal, said Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Wednesday.
“The demands should be accepted so that the sit-ins come to an end, the government continues its work and the country is back on track,” said Altaf while addressing his workers in Karachi through a video link.
The MQM chief said the chief justice should give orders for the release of former president Pervez Musharraf, adding that if he could not do that, then he should take suo moto notice of all the generals involved in the October 12, 1999 coup.
“When General Pervez Musharraf was indicted under Article 6, why didn’t human rights organisations and lawyers come out to protest?” he questioned.
Altaf appealed to the Supreme Court to start accountability from lower and session courts, and hold courts in every barracks to know the status of prisoners who are languishing in jails for years.
He said the MQM could come to power if establishment supported them. “But the establishment seems to be annoyed with us,” he added.
Altaf said new provinces were the need of the hour to save the country, and said that when PPP government had passed resolutions for a new Hazara and South Punjab province, the MQM had supported them.
Referring to Bilawal Bhutto’s tweet against formation of administrative units, he said, “And today’s the PPP head, chotay mian, is talking big. You are too young to talk big.”
Without naming Bilawal or his father Asif Zardari, Altaf said: “the son says what the father cannot.”
Published in The Express Tribune, September 18th, 2014.
The government should accept the demands of Dr Tahirul Qadri and Imran Khan as most of their demands are constitutional and legal, said Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Wednesday.
“The demands should be accepted so that the sit-ins come to an end, the government continues its work and the country is back on track,” said Altaf while addressing his workers in Karachi through a video link.
The MQM chief said the chief justice should give orders for the release of former president Pervez Musharraf, adding that if he could not do that, then he should take suo moto notice of all the generals involved in the October 12, 1999 coup.
“When General Pervez Musharraf was indicted under Article 6, why didn’t human rights organisations and lawyers come out to protest?” he questioned.
Altaf appealed to the Supreme Court to start accountability from lower and session courts, and hold courts in every barracks to know the status of prisoners who are languishing in jails for years.
He said the MQM could come to power if establishment supported them. “But the establishment seems to be annoyed with us,” he added.
Altaf said new provinces were the need of the hour to save the country, and said that when PPP government had passed resolutions for a new Hazara and South Punjab province, the MQM had supported them.
Referring to Bilawal Bhutto’s tweet against formation of administrative units, he said, “And today’s the PPP head, chotay mian, is talking big. You are too young to talk big.”
Without naming Bilawal or his father Asif Zardari, Altaf said: “the son says what the father cannot.”
Published in The Express Tribune, September 18th, 2014.