Pakistan seals offices of ethnic party accused of violence

The case pertains to the attack on “ARY” News’ office, vandalising of property, arson and pelting of stones at police.

Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) candidates Waseem Akhtar and Arshad Vohra have been elected as Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Karachi respectively, according to unofficial and unconfirmed results. After that ARY, SAMAA and GEO were attacked, with the ARY office being ransacked. We have to first address the issue of Altaf Hussain’s health. They have set forward a process of elimination of the MQM’s leadership in Pakistan as led by Dr. Farooq Sattar.

Previous charges have not resulted in action or extradition requests against Hussain, who has lived in London since fleeing a military operation against his party in 1992 and is a British citizen.

One day after Hussain’s speech, senior leaders of the party including Farooq Sattar in whose name the party is registered with the election commission distanced themselves from the coordination committee headed by Hussain which operates from London. Pakistan is headache for the entire world. This outburst forced the authorities in Karachi to recall that the attack on the TV channels gibed with the expectation of a Quetta-like incident in Karachi, contrived by India. He dramatized the execution of the former saying: “I will hang him in Karachi if only I could lay my hands on Israeli weapons. I would put D.G. Rangers on trial, hang him and keep him in the open for three months to make his dead body rot”.

The MQM has come under intense pressure this week after a diatribe by its leader, Altaf Hussain at a hunger strike camp outside the Karachi press club led to violence and nationwide condemnation over his anti-Pakistan comments.

How Akhtar will manage to run the city is far from clear, with the courts not expected to release him before he likely takes oath on August 30.

Security forces have arrested scores of MQM members in the a year ago and accuse them of torture, murder and racketeering in a bid to keep their grip on the city.