Pakistan seeks British support to book MQM chief Altaf Hussain for treason

Scotland Yard is examining if London-based MQM leader Altaf Hussains speech incited violence in which one person was killed and several others injured in Karachi earlier this week.

Notices displayed outside each office shut by the security personnel warn of a stern action against anyone who tries to reopen party centres.

Meanwhile, sources in Rangers indicate that authorities were thinking to release photographs of attackers in newspapers who were shown in CCTV footage of different media houses.

The chaos all began on Tuesday when MQM supporters gathered outside Karachi’s press club, protesting what they called a “media bias” toward a hunger strike undertaken by them 10 days ago.

On the other hand, Sheeraz Waheed, MQM’s member of Sindh Assembly from Landhi, was arrested from Site Super Highway area on Thursday evening.

Reports from Pakistan suggest that the attackers were all MQM party workers, although party leaders have pointed to a conspiracy.

Also, his senior aides, including Dr Farooq Sattar, Khawaja Izharul Hassan, Nasreen Jalil and Amir Liaquat Hussain, disowned the all-powerful London office of the party.

According to SSP Malir, Rao Anwar, a police team has been formed to nab Dr Liaquat.

The posters and banners featuring the image of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain and party’s flags were removed from its headquarters Nine Zero in Karachi and adjacent areas. Rao Anwar further said that the ex-MQM leader was nominated as facilitator in three cases. It is learnt that his distancing from the MQM affairs came as a result of the revolt led by the top brass of the party which badly wanted him to evict from the movement that he founded long back in 1984 as Mohajir Quami Movement initially.

According to sources, the ministry has contacted the law enforcement institutions in Karachi The sources said that a special team of the federal interior ministry will head to the United Kingdom in this regard.