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 Imran
for action against Altaf
LAHORE:PAKISTAN Tehreek e Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has urged
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take notice of criminal
activities of MQM Quaid Altaf Hussain in the light of British laws
on terrorism.In a letter written to Brown, the PTI called the PM’s
attention to the activities of Altaf Hussain, who was granted the
status of a British citizen after he had fled from Pakistan as a
fugitive from justice.
Imran wrote that at the time of Altaf’s arrival in London, he was
facing 234 registered criminal cases including 44 murder charges and
18 torture charges. The PTI chief alleged that the Muttahida Qaumi
Movement (MQM), the party headed by Altaf was controlled in
‘mafia-style’ with his word being the law. Detractors faced the
ultimate punishment - death - carried out through the private armed
force maintained at his Karachi barricaded headquarters known as
Nine Zero, wrote Imran to the British premier.
Holding Altaf Hussain responsible for the May 12 mayhem of 2007,
Imran wrote that on Altaf’s order, his party was involved in the May
12, 2007 carnage in Karachi where 48 people lost their lives and 200
sustained bullet wounds, including 10 workers of the PTI. He added
that Altaf-led MQM later went on to physically disrupt court
hearings of this incident.
Besides, alleging Altaf’s involvement in the recent killings in
Karachi, Imran wrote that most recently, and at a time when the MQM
was a coalition partner in the federal and provincial governments,
Altaf Hussain (sitting in London) sought to incite ethnic violence
and vigilantism by calling on his supporters to arm themselves and
fight ‘Talibanisation’ a label he tried to put on the two million
Pashtun workers of Karachi.
Imran wrote that as a result 36 people were killed over two days of
violence and when the Sindh inspector general of police implicated
the MQM in his inquiry, they demanded his immediate removal.
The PTI chief further wrote that in 2007, on two occasions, the
Federal Court of Canada ruled that the MQM met the legal definition
of a terrorist organization and its members could not be given
political asylum, adding, “the US State Department web site
describes the MQM as a violent organization”.
The
News International: Friday, May 08, 2009
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