OPEN
LETTER
TO
MIAN MUHAMMED NAWAZ SHARIF
Monday, May 1, 2023
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif!
I can guess about the mental anguish
you are passing through nowadays. Just look around and peep into the past. You
may recall a meeting of the COP held on 26.01.1990. The venue was Shahra-e
Qaideen at Karachi in close vicinity of Quaid’s mausoleum. Political parties
except Pakistan People’s Party had joined it. MQM had borne the entire
expenses. I had in my address raised a question why country’s prime minister
can’t be from Punjab. My addressees were the people, leaders and you, too. You
were also the expected candidate for the future premiership, then. I had untiringly supported you to be the
country’s prime minister. You had promised me that you would eliminate the
decayed feudal system from the country after becoming the prime minister and
that you would also ensure land reforms and that the land would be distributed
among the poor farmers, peasants and farmers. You had also asserted that you
were also a strong opponent of the feudal system. On becoming the country’s
prime minister, you parted ways, insulted your promise and betrayed me who did
not get a single penny from you or any substantial benefit. You had neither
abolished the feudal system nor took any measures to eradicate that inhuman
feudal system from the country.
Instead, a fierce military crackdown
was launched against the MQM while you were the country’s prime minster, and
you had nodded yes to the military chief to go ahead and that’s the fact that
you ordered for the military crackdown.
Military operation against MQM also
started during his regime, the late Chief of Army Staff General Asif Nawaz
Janjua, who made MQM Haqiqi, based on criminals expelled from MQM, you didn’t stop
him from doing such unlawful and unconstitutional work and when the late IG of
the Punjab province Sardar Muhammad Chaudhry arrested the terrorists of MQM
from Lahore, you had released those Haqiqi terrorists, which Chaudhry wrote in
his book, The Ultimate Crime, on page number 605. He wrote; “During the army
action in Sindh in 1992, he made Muhajir Qaumi Movement his only target, though
he was supposed to act against dacoits and gangsters everywhere in the
province. Some gangsters in MQM fled to Lahore. Helped by timely intelligence,
the police were able to arrest all of them. Gen. Asif Nawaz wanted me to
release them. "But they are murderers and criminals, " I told him.
" Their arrest will help in achieving the objectives of the army
action." But he had some other objectives in mind. "You are not fully
aware of the situation in Karachi, " he said, "I want to set these
thieves to catch bigger thieves," I, however, did not give in. He then
approached the Prime Minister. Whatever he told him, the result was that Nawaz
Sharif rushed immediately to Lahore and held a high-level meeting right at the
airport. My arguments cut no ice with him. Then the Additional IGP, Special
Branch, Maj. Zia-ul-Hassan, narrated the details of the criminal acts of those
under arrest. When he insisted, rather emotionally, that the arrests were
justified, the Prime Minister, instead of changing his mind, lost his temper.
The tremendous pressure of the army chief seemed to be showing itself. So, we
had to find a way out to allow release on bail. The same criminal elements
later reappeared in Karachi as "MQM Haqiqi". The Chief of Army Staff
was their patron. So, we had to find a way to allow him to be released on
bail. The same criminal elements later
appeared in Karachi under the name of "MQM-Haqiqi". The Chief of Army Staff was his
Patron-in-Chief.
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif!
You might have remembered everything
after reading this paragraph. However,
the army finally started the military crackdown in Sindh on June 19, 1992. In
the early morning of June 19, 1992, the army put real terrorists armed with the
latest weapons in their military trucks and entered all the cities of Sindh
province including Karachi and a bloodletting operation was launched against
On June 19, 1992, when the military
operation started, you were in London and staying at the Dorchester Hotel in
London. After untiring efforts, I got the permission to meet you and I went to
Dorchester Hotel to meet you and I strongly protested to you and said,
"What disloyalty did I or MQM do to you that the military crackdown was
launched against us?" Offices of MQM were unlawfully occupied by Haqiqi terrorists
with the help of the army but also martyred hundreds of MQM comrades.
I also told you that one of your
federal ministers, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who read the statement announced by
the army in the National Assembly and recited that the army was fighting
robbers, patharidars, big landlords who gave them shelter and kidnapping in
Sindh. An operation was planned against 72 big fishes, including those who
committed acts of for ransom, and the names of 72 big fishes were also included
in the list prepared by the army, and that list is still on record of the
National Assembly. The names of the
facilitators in those criminal activities were also mentioned in this list,
including the names of late Pir Pagaro, late Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, late Benazir
Bhutto and Asif Zardari.
Regarding this list of 72 big
fishes, I had personally emphasised several times that the list of 72 big
fishes was just a hoax. In fact, the military crackdown would only be against the
MQM. You had repeatedly negated my
premonitions and instead, you had assured me that this cannot happen in your
presence and you had asserted that you won’t allow the army to take any such
action against the MQM.
But my premonitions proved real. You
also used a tricky side by saying that you would stop that military crackdown on
returning to Pakistan and would seek support from the country’s President
Ghulam Ishaq Khan. I remind you that in my presence you also spoke to President
Ghulam Ishaq Khan over the phone. After your assurance, I returned to my residence.
But, on returning Pakistan, you gave a statement in support of the army and
said, "I have sacrificed 14 of my friends (Lawmakers from the MQM) for a
great purpose."
Mian Muhammed Nawaz Sharif!
The military crackdown that was
launched on June 19, 1992 under your nose is still in full swing. Approximately,
the military has till date killed 25, 000 innocent workers of the MQM. Hundreds
have been enforced to disappear and the courts are denying justice to them despite
petitions in the courts. Many have been killed in custody and their mutilated
bodies dumped at deserted lands. Thousands of senescent have thus been deprived
of their substantial support and their spouses have been rendered widows.
Thousands have been rendered orphans and thousands have been implicated in fake
cases.
The governments of Benazir Bhutto
and Zaradi revamped the military crackdown. You must look around and weigh your
sins and crimes.
Mian Muhammed Nawaz Sharif!
You repeatedly breached your
promises and bowed down to the army in such a way that you did not even bother
to talk to me on the phone despite my repeated calls. In July 2007, you called
an All-Parties Conference (APC) of all political and religious parties in
London. Except the MQM, every single political and religious party was invited
including the Tehreek-e Insaf chairman Imran Khan, who also participated.
Mian Muhammed Nawaz Sharif!
In this meeting, in open violation
of the points you mentioned, you also passed another resolution that any
political and religious party participating in this meeting will neither meet
any member of the MQM nor will have any kind of relation. Political or non-political discussions would
be held and if anyone would violate that resolution, he would be expelled from
the alliance.
Mian Muhammed Nawaz Sharif!
If you had not committed this big
fraud with MQM and had not proposed a resolution to completely forget the MQM, then
neither the Karma would have engulfed you severely nor would you have had to
face such a big worldwide disgrace. Your younger brother is now the county’s
Prime Minister but you can’t go back to Pakistan.
Here I lay one of my words;
"If any person gets a big
position, he must take it as a gift of God but must not pose as God on
earth."
This “Open Letter” is for everyone,
too.
Thanks
Altaf Hussain
(London)
May 1, 2023
Note: I have attached various
pictures of APC with this open letter held in London on July 7, 2007.
Issued by:
Central Information Department,
Provisional MQM International
Secretariat London.
185, Whitchurch Lane, Edgware,
Middlesex HA8 6QT.
United Kingdom.
Phone No.0044 2089527300
Email: [email protected]