MQM DECIDES TO SIT ON OPPOSITION BENCHES IN SENATE AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 

2^ND JANUARY 2011:

The Co-ordination Committee of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has decided that MQM will sit on opposition benches in the Senate and National Assembly. MQM Founder and Leader Mr Altaf Hussain has ratified the decision of the Co-ordination Committee. In a joint meeting of the Co-ordination Committee in London and Karachi in which MQM Senators and MNAs and MPAs also participated, the overall political and economic situation obtaining in the country came under detailed discussion. The meeting condemned Highly Inflated prices of petrol, diesel, and kerosene oil and noted with concern that the poor and middle class people were already faced with misery and hardships, labourers are finding it difficult to meet both ends. It was said in the meeting that the situation has deteriorated to such an extent that poor people were being forced to sell their children.

“The fresh increment in the prices of POL products at the onset of the New Year is not only unjust but is tantamount to cruelty. With the increase in POL prices transport fares and prices of other essential commodities are on the rise which has broken the back of the people and their economic problems have been compounded all the more. On the one hand government is imposing indirect taxes on the people and on the other hand mini budgets are being introduced in the shape of increase in prices on almost daily basis.”

The meeting said that while increase in oil prices in the international market was being cited as a reason for increasing oil prices but no effort was being made to improve the economic condition of the country by bringing the agricultural income of feudal lords and big landed-estates under the tax net and plugging unbridled corruption. “The rich people have been virtually exempted from paying tax and the salaried class is facing the ever increasing tax burden.”

The meeting noted with serious concern the escalation in the incidents of kidnapping for ransom, extortion, terrorism and robberies and the deteriorating law and order situation in the Sindh and other parts of country.

It was said in the meeting that MQM was a political party that took important decisions on the aspirations of the people. “Its representatives feel themselves accountable before the public as they lived in their midst. Pressure is mounting on the elected representatives because of the increase in POL prices. In these situations MQM considers it impossible to sit on the treasury benches hence we would sit on the opposition benches in the Senate and National Assembly. Nonetheless we will continue to support positive steps of the government, but openly oppose all those steps that go against the interest of the people.

The meeting demanded the government to take back the increase in oil prices immediately and control the prices. Unjust taxation should stop forthwith and the agricultural income of feudal lords should be taxed and corruption stopped. It also demanded that to recover money from those who had usurped big loans from banks.

 JUI leader Maulana Fazal ur Rehman  greets Altaf Hussain on quitting govt

Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman Sunday congratulated Founder and leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Mr. Altaf Hussain on the latter’s decision to sit on opposition benches in National Assembly and Senate. In a telephonic conversation with Altaf Hussain, he said MQM and JUI-F will fill the vacuum of opposition in the country.Altaf Hussain rang up JUI-F Chief following MQM’s decision to move to opposition benches in the National Assembly and the Senate.

ALTAF HUSSAIN CALLS CHOUDHRY SHUJAAT AND PERVEZ ELAHI

2ND JANUARY 2011:

Founder and Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement Mr Altaf Hussain called PML (Q) leaders Choudhry Shujaat Hussain and Choudhry Pervez Elahi and discussed with them the political situation in the country. While talking to them Mr Altaf Hussain said that the people of Pakistan were faced with difficult position and it was not possible for the MQM to continue to sit in the government in the government in the keeping in view the problems of the people hence the Co-ordination Committee decided to come out of the government. Choudhry Shujaat and Choudhry Pervez Elahi hailed the decision of MQM to sit on opposition benches and said that the decision reflected the aspirations of the people. They said that the PML (Q) valued the decision of MQM would stand by it. The leaders agreed on increasing the contacts in future.

ALTAF HUSSAIN DISCUSSES POLITICAL SITUATION WITH PIR PAGARA

 LONDON: 2ND JANUARY 2011: 

Founder and Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement Mr Altaf Hussain called the spiritual leader of Hurst and President of Functional Muslim League Pir Pagara and discussed with him the political situation in the country. The decision of MQM to sit on opposition benches in the Senate and National Assembly was discussed during the call breath-taking increase in prices and other issues of public importance. Pir Pagara appreciated the decision of MQM. Both the leaders agreed on increasing contacts for the welfare of the people and prosperity and progress of the country.

ALTAF HUSSAIN ASKS SOUTHERN PUNJAB TO PLAY LEADING ROLE IN MQM STRUGGLE 

MULTAN: 2^ND JANUARY 2010: 

The Founder and Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement Mr Altaf Hussain has said that 98 per cent of the people belonging to poor and middle class were the bulwark against threats to national security and integrity of the county. He said that only the poor and middle class people who struggle and could save the country.  He declared that if the country was not freed from the dynastic politics of a few families, then God forbid, the remaining Pakistan may also be wiped out from the face of the world. Mr. Altaf Hussain made these remarks while talking to office-bearers of various wings of the party who had gathered in the Multan Zonal Office of the party to listen to him. While talking he appealed to the people of Southern Punjab to join MQM for a better future of the coming generations. He said that Southern Punjab was the most neglected part of the Punjab and its people were grossly discriminated against in every walk of life.

Mr Altaf Hussain greeted a “Happy New Year” to the workers and office-bearers and prayed that the New Year brought peace and prosperity for the country and it became auspicious for the righteous struggle of MQM. He said that Pakistan came into being as a result of unimaginable sacrifices and still some of the people lived who were direct eyewitness of the sacrificed that were rendered by the Muslims for Pakistan.  He regretted that a country that was obtained through so many sacrifices was forced to carry a begging bowl throughout the world by both the civil and military rulers of the country.

He said that new taxes were being imposed upon poor people in order to pay debts and its interest that had resulted in sharp increase in prices of commodities. He said that so long as the rule of the few families continued in the country and the country was not freed from the clutches of those who pillaged and plundered national wealth, there was no hope for Pakistan to come on the road to prosperity.