Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has decided to quit Sindh government in protest against Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto's criticism of Altaf Hussain in Saturday's public meeting at Bagh-e-Jinnah. Addressing a hurriedly-called press conference at Nine Zero, MQM leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said that his party had suffered the worst operation during PPP regime in the past.
"If we had to do politics of hate and ethnicity, PPP had given us ample material for 100 years in 1997," he said. "We had justification to do politics of hate and ethnicity," he added.
Altaf Hussain, he said, had converted the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) into Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). Maqbool called for an end to politics of hatred and ethnicity.
"We did not disappoint Asif Ali Zardari when he visited Nine Zero in 2008," he recalled adding "We have rendered many sacrifices on our part. Despite our message of love, we got threats and injustice in return of co-operation."
He said that PPP had displayed hatred and discrimination over the last five years.
"There is no reason left now to remain part of the PPP's coalition government following Bilawal Bhutto's unprovoked threats," he announced. "We cannot make any compromise if our leadership is targeted," he added. Maqbool was of the view that Sindh has been divided into parts, Sindh 1 and Sindh 2.
He said that they had tried their best to stabilise democracy and Sindh even at the cost of their credibility. "But I feel that strengthening the hands of PPP is like weakening Pakistan," he added.
He said that MQM would never make any compromise on a separate province.
The MQM leader said that Bilawal Bhutto had made politics as a business. He asked Bilawal Bhutto Zardari whether PPP could make the lives of killers of Benazir Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Murtaza Bhutto as hell. "We will get our rights as well as separate province," he declared.
Bilawal Zardari could be the heir of Bambino Cinema, not of PPP, he said.
Later, dozens of MQM's workers chanted 'Go Zardari Go' and 'Go Bilawal Go' slogans.
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