Dr Farooq Sattar, Chief PIB faction of Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) on Wednesday hinted at boycott of General Election 2018 if what he called the spree of injustices and excesses against the party and Urban Sindh was not stopped forthwith. "The party reserves the right to boycott general elections this year if the situation remained the same," Sattar declared while talking to media persons here.
He was critical of delimitations of constituencies in Karachi and the figures of national census. He claimed that Urban Sindh was subjected to injustices in national census and showed the concern over failure to conduct the third party audit of five percent blocks in national census.
He questioned that when the census was not carried out in a transparent and just manner, how the delimitation of constituencies can be termed rightly. Sattar described wrongdoings in national census and delimitation in the constituencies' pre-poll rigging and appealed to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to take notice of this situation.
Sattar believed that unjust census and delimitation is a ploy to minus MQM and stated that even before the election, the seats of Karachi are reported to be distributed. He said that the ECP should lend the ear to our reservations to hold free and fair elections in the country.