Altaf's bank account: British Prime Minister urged to take notice of harassment

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Farooq Sattar on Sunday urged British Prime Minister David Cameron to take notice of what it said harassment of MQM chief Altaf Hussain and his colleagues in London. Addressing a mammoth rally expressing solidarity with its chief Altaf Hussain at MA Jinnah Road, Dr Sattar said that Altaf Hussain is being harassed by the British administration.
He asked five questions from British prime minister over victimisation of Altaf Hussain and said Cameron should answer these questions in light of human rights traditions followed in his country. He asked how come a resident and a national of Britain and the European Union could survive without a bank account and how can he pay his bills and fulfil needs of his daughter Afza Altaf?
"Is it not a violation of basic fundamental rights that bank accounts of Altaf Hussain and his colleagues were seized without registering any case against them?
"Is personal items of Altaf Hussain's daughter could be made part of money laundering case as the British police had confiscated a laptop, an ipad and other accessories of Afza Altaf and had not yet returned them even after the passage of one year," he said. He said that Altaf Hussain had a hobby of collecting coins in jars and asked if coin collection was an organized crime in London. "Do coins collected in a jar constituted money laundering," he said.
He said why on pressure exerted by some British nationals of Pakistani origin, having ideological differences with MQM, the British prime minister is acting against his country's traditions and conventions. He said that such a move from British government is against traditions of United Kingdom, a charter of human rights.
He termed the issue as politically motivated and said that MQM would move British courts and stage a protest at 10 the Downing Street against the British government.
He claimed that millions invested in British banks and real state by Pakistani elite class but no action has been taken against them but "Altaf Hussain is being victimised for raising voice in support of 95 percent people of the country." Speaking on the occasion, MQM Deputy Convenor Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said the British government ought to answer the questions raised by Dr Sattar.
MQM leader Haider Abbas Rizvi demanded government to stop extra-judicial killings of the MQM activists and said that one more activist was extra-judicially killed on Sunday. MQM leader Nabil Gabol and others also spoke.