IMPOSITION OF "GOVERNOR RULE" IN SINDH WILL BE DISASTROUS FOR DEMOCRACY AND NATIONAL SOLIDARITY -- ALTAF HUSSAIN

London, 19 June 1998

The MQM Founder & Leader, Mr. Altaf Hussain has held State Agencies responsible for the killings and destruction in Karachi. The deteriorating law and order situation engineered by the Agencies is a prelude to impose Governor Rule in Sindh province, he declared. He said it is inconceivable for any patriotic Pakistani that Agencies are engaged in their nefarious designs in Sindh at a time when country is facing serious threat on its borders and the economic crisis is worsening due to stoppage of foreign economic aid or loans to Pakistan.

Mr. Altaf Hussain pointed out that since 3 February 1997, more than 160 MQM workers and their relatives have been murdered -- only in the month of June 1998 over 10 MQM workers have been murdered under the patronage of the State Agencies. He further added that we have been very patient so far and today I have sent an "SOS" message to the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take serious notice of the conspiracies against the country and the democratic system.

Mr. Altaf Hussain declared that people of Sindh province will never accept the Governor Rule. He appealed to the people of Pakistan, particularly the people of Sindh and the democratic institutions to get united and defeat the nefarious conspiracies against the people of Pakistan and the democracy. He added that these conspiracies are not just against the MQM but the whole fabric of the country. He pointed out that MQM is being targeted because it has opposed the construction of Kalabagh Dam in the interest of Sindh. Mr. Altaf Hussain appealed to all the Sindhi people, intellectuals, journalists and writers to raise their voice against the conspiracies hatched against the MQM.