Deputy Convener of the Co-ordination Committee and Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Dr Farooq Sattar has said that the MQM has always played a positive role for national security and saving the country and it would continue to do so in future as well. The MQM believes that all political and religious parties in the country would have to get united for taking the country out of current crises. He expressed these views while talking to the media persons after holding a meeting with the PML (Q) chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain at his residence.

President Asif Zardari has said that the process of dialogue with all political and allied parties on the national security and all other issues would continue. He commended the suggestion of convening a round table conference from the MQM and extended his support for the idea.The president asked Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to call a round table conference on all national issues in order to formulate a comprehensive strategy for future by consulting with all political forces. He said this in a meeting with the MQM delegation in presidential camp office Bilawal House in Karachi...

Dr Farooq Sattar has said that internal and external threats are hovering over the national security of Pakistan. People belonging to different spheres of life would have to think of the interest of the country by setting aside parochial differences and party politics. He said this while addressing a meeting of all the wings of the MQM in Khursheed Begum Secretariat near Nine Zero. Deputy Conveners of the Co-ordination Committee Senator Mrs Nasrin Jalil, Mr Anis Ahmed Qaimkhani, office-bearers of different wings, resident committees and council of professionals.