SC has not taken any action to recover missing workers: Altaf

Muttahida Qaumi Movement founder Altaf Hussain said on Tuesday that several operations were carried to abolish MQM, several workers have been killed and many are arrested and yet Supreme Court has not taken any action to recover missing workers. In a telephonic address on the 24th Foundation Day of the party he said that his party wants to abolish hunger and poverty. He added that a conspiracy to engineer riots in Karachi was being hatched by unscrupulous elements and a huge quantity of arms was being distributed to gag the voice of the party. We want peace and do not want fighting but any attempt against us will be paid back in the same coin.The participants of the meeting replied in the affirmative when Altaf asked them whether they are ready to face future challenges. He thanked the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and other combined opposition parties for nominating MQM Dr Farooq Sattar as their joint candidate for the next prime minister.He said the combined opposition parties got success in the Feb 18 general election from all the four provinces unlike the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz, which was only limited to the Punjab province. He criticised the remarks of PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif that he was inheriting a economically collapsed Pakistan. Why don’t you announce to play the role of the opposition instead of running after power? He questioned. Altaf said some political and religious parties were still spreading a negative propaganda against the MQM but it would not limit the struggle of the party, which wanted to eliminate feudal system from the country. “The MQM had been termed an anti-state party and even it was blamed for hatching a conspiracy to create Jinnah Pur. However, the establishment failed to stop the struggle of the MQM and today the message of the party was spreading in the whole country”.