STUDENTS SHOULD PROPAGATE THE MESSAGE OF MQM: ALTAF HUSSAIN

LONDON: 13^TH APRIL 2011

The Founder and Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement Mr Altaf Hussain has said that he is not endeavouring to make landed estates and property for his family. He said that he was striving to get rights for the poor and middle class people and for freeing them from the shackles of looters and plunderers. He said this while talking to the students of various universities and colleges who had come to the MQM Punjab House for joining the party. Members of MQM Lahore Zone and Social Forum were also present on the occasion.

He said that soon after the independence a dynastic political system gripped the country and a handful of families continued to rule the country generation after generation. He said that this privileged class robbed the national exchequer and aggrandized wealth and huge properties.  He said that scions of these handfuls of families took part in every election and reach the corridors of power while the poor and middle class people were deprived of even their basic rights.

He said that the country had broken as a result of the misrule of these privileged people and the remaining Pakistan was also at their mercy. He said that the champions of the rights of poor people had palaces not only in Pakistan but also in foreign countries while he had the only home in Azizabad which he had even before coming in the politics. He said that he had no business concern either in London or in USA.

He said that he had seen poverty and problems created by the poverty very closely. He said that he knew full well the problems being faced by the poor and middle class people.

He said that he had been running the movement for the past thirty three years and during this period the MQM had been in the government on several occasions. He said that if it had been the aim of his politics to accumulate wealth for him and his family then his name would also have been in the list of looters of national wealth and he would also have palaces in Lahore, Islamabad, Murree and other cities of the country.

He said that his life was like an open book and he was struggling to get the rights of the poor and middle class people instead of making personal wealth.

He said that there was no difference of big and small in the MQM and workers are given respect and honour. He said that the members of the assemblies work along with the workers which could not be seen in any other political party of the country.

He praised the speed with which the younger generation particularly the students in the Punjab  are inclining towards the MQM after the successful public meeting in Lahore and added that the younger generation has understood that only the MQM can bring a change in the country.

He said that the prejudiced and myopic elements that wanted to maintain the status quo in the country had made ferocious propaganda against the MQM in order to keep the people of the Punjab from joining the party.

He said that for the seventeen long years the MQM was accused of the Jinnahpur conspiracy but ultimately head of the intelligence bureau Brigadier Imtiaz confessed that it was a drama. He said that Brigadier Imtiaz also accepted that the head of the then ISI Lt Gen Hamid Gul had sent money to buy Altaf Hussain but Altaf Hussain refused the money.

He said that the prejudiced elements have once again started spewing venom against the MQM in view of the rapid increase in the popularity of the party in the masses. He said these elements have once again started stoking linguistic hatred by misleading propaganda. He emphatically said that all attempts at creating division in the people on basis of language would come to nothing.

He said that the MQM would send able and educated people from the poor and middle class in the corridors of power. He welcomed the students who had joined the MQM and said that the movement in which the younger generation participated could not be destroyed through conspiracies. He asked the students to spread the message of the MQM in colleges and universities face the hardships in the paths with equanimity.