Farooq Sattar & Mustafa Kamal join MQM-P

Almost all estranged leaders belonging to different factions join hands to give PTI tough time in elections.

Farooq Sattar & Mustafa Kamal join MQM-P. After years of differences, Pak Sarzameen Party Chairman Mustafa Kamal and Muttahida Qaumi Movement Restoration Committee Chief Dr Farooq Sattar have joined the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Thursday.

MQM-P Convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, addressing a press conference alongside the top brass of the party, said the “graveness” of the situation in Sindh’s urban areas requires all people to join hands.

Siddiqui said: “It is important that under the circumstances, the people, whose families laid down their lives for Pakistan’s formations, should come together for a historic struggle.”

The MQM-P leader said that the elements who wished to divide the nation are disappointed and vowed that the rejuvenated MQM-P would live up to the dreams of the masses and strive for urban cities’ development.

“I welcome you all — Kamal, Sattar, and their aides. I hope that all of you will strive for the nation,” the former federal minister for information and technology added.

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Speaking on the occasion, Kamal said this day will be remembered in history as an “important day” as certain decisions would be taken today that will be “unthinkable”.

“If we talk about ourselves then we have taken such unthinkable decisions in the past as well which were beyond people’s understanding,” he said recalling that when he left Muttahida’s founder Altaf Hussain’s MQM on August 14, 2013, he was a Senator and the member of the Rabta committee.

He clarified that he had no personal differences with Hussain and that the decision to leave the party was completely based on political differences.

Walking the journalists down the events that took place in the past, Kamal recalled that in October 2013 then a member of the Rabta committee Anees Qaim Khani left Hussain’s party and for three years both leaders remained silent.

“On March 3, 2016, we [Kamal and Khani] came here [MQM House] and bluntly spoke the truth which was once again in the wider interest of the Muhajir cause,” he said.