ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has announced to part its ways from the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government in Azad Kashmir.
The decision was announced by the MQM senior leader Farooq Sattar at a press conference at National Press Club in Islamabad on Wednesday.
The MQM senior leader said that resignations of members will soon be sent to Prime Minister Azad Kashmir. He said that the MQM already left the PPP government in Sindh and their both decisions are final.
“We have tolerated a number of antics and inadequacies…but things have come to a head now…it is no longer possible for us to be in an alliance with the PPP,” media quoted Sattar as saying.
Farooq Sattar said that the language used by the PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari against party chief Altaf Hussain had taken the situation to a point of no return, adding that the absence of an apology on part of either the PPP chief or Asif Ali Zardari didn’t help matters.
“The PPP chairman did not even think how much older Altaf bhai is to him…obviously this was not the only reason and PPP’s treatment of MQM has been shameful across the board…but this became the last straw,” Sattar said.
Earlier on Sunday, the MQM quit the PPP-led coalition government in Sindh, only six months after having joined it.
