Power struggle: PTI to confront ethnic polarisation, says Asad Umar
PTI will confront ethnic polarisation in Sindh
Asad Umar addressing the Workers Convention at Latifabad. PHOTO: INP
HYDERABAD:
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is all set to challenge, what it calls, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) ‘divisive power struggle at play in different parts of Sindh’.
PTI central leader Asad Umar said that the party will confront ethnic polarisation in Sindh. He was speaking at a party convention in Hyderabad on Friday.
“The politics that serves the people is one that doesn’t divide them into sectarian, ethnic or linguistic groups,” he said. According to him, the MQM led the Urdu-speaking community to believe that they are the only group that is being discriminated against in the political fabric of Pakistan. He said that this idea was contrary to reality.
“The fact is that every linguistic group — they may be Sindhis, Punjabis, Pakhtuns or Baloch — was not getting justice as only a few thousand families held power in Pakistan,” he said.
Talking about the by-elections in NA-246 (Azizabad) constituency in Karachi, Umar played down the significance of what he described as ‘traditional sabre-rattling of the MQM’. “The time of politics of threats has ended,” he said.
PTI’s provincial general secretary MPA Hafeezuddin said the 30 years of MQM’s politics in Karachi, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Nawabshah and Sukkur has only created problems for the Urdu-speaking community.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 5th, 2015.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is all set to challenge, what it calls, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) ‘divisive power struggle at play in different parts of Sindh’.
PTI central leader Asad Umar said that the party will confront ethnic polarisation in Sindh. He was speaking at a party convention in Hyderabad on Friday.
“The politics that serves the people is one that doesn’t divide them into sectarian, ethnic or linguistic groups,” he said. According to him, the MQM led the Urdu-speaking community to believe that they are the only group that is being discriminated against in the political fabric of Pakistan. He said that this idea was contrary to reality.
“The fact is that every linguistic group — they may be Sindhis, Punjabis, Pakhtuns or Baloch — was not getting justice as only a few thousand families held power in Pakistan,” he said.
Talking about the by-elections in NA-246 (Azizabad) constituency in Karachi, Umar played down the significance of what he described as ‘traditional sabre-rattling of the MQM’. “The time of politics of threats has ended,” he said.
PTI’s provincial general secretary MPA Hafeezuddin said the 30 years of MQM’s politics in Karachi, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Nawabshah and Sukkur has only created problems for the Urdu-speaking community.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 5th, 2015.