Dr Farooq Sattar to make ‘major disclosure’ in MQM-P meeting today

Muttahida Qaumi Movement - Pakistan (MQM-P) chief Dr Farooq Sattar has called his party members for an important meeting on Tuesday (today), in which he will be making a 'major disclosure'.

Sattar took to Twitter and requested all the party members to attend the meeting that would be held today in the afternoon at PIB cricket stadium. In a video, Sattar said that he would be disclosing something that he has never said before and will reveal all that had taken place with his party during the last 15 months.

To decide the future of our party, I request all Haqparast members of MQM Pakistan to attend an important general workers meeting today 4pm at KMC ground (PIB cricket stadium) pic.twitter.com/o9ackzMGNv

— Dr Farooq Sattar (@DFSMQM) February 6, 2018

On Monday, Sattar and senior leader Amir Khan had disagreed in their decision of electing names of candidates for the Senate elections, local media reported. Sattar had wanted to nominate Mr Kamran Tessori as a candidate on one of the Senate general seats. However, other members had rebelled against him. After the session, Sattar and his supporters left the party’s office.

Later, without their chief present at the meeting, MQM-P’s top decision-making forum removed candidate Tessori from the coordination committee and suspended him for six months. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, while announcing outside the party’s Bahadurabad office that Tessori was no longer a member of Rabita Committee anymore, said that Sattar remained the party’s convener.

He further said that Sattar had favored Tessori and had insisted on keeping Tessori’s name in top four by sacrificing two of the top four candidates.

Nasreen Jalil, Farogh Nasim, Aminul Haque and Shabbir Qaimkhani were the names of the candidate the party had decided to nominate Siddque. Whereas, names of Kamran Tessori and Amir Khan were kept at numbers five and six.

Sattar had termed the meeting without him as unconstitutional and illegal and suspended all those who were part of the meeting until the members' rally in the evening, later today.