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Haq maintained that he was contacted when Dr Sattar and likeminded leaders disavowed MQM’s founder Altaf Hussain and other leaders in London after his August 22 speech. “In fact, he was not in contact with us.” “We did not advise him and he did not inform us (in advance),” Aminul Haq, a senior MQM leader working closely with Dr Sattar, told The Express Tribune. However, MQM-Pakistan has ruled out the possibility. Since August 22 last year, his statements showed that his sympathies were with Dr Sattar-led MQM-Pakistan, and there is a likelihood that he might have shared his plan to return to Pakistan with MQM-Pakistan’s leadership. Shahzad remained associated with MQM founder Altaf Hussain and his party since its inception as a student organisation in 1978, until he was removed from the Coordination Committee in London in 2013 and was later expelled from the MQM.Īnnouncing his plan to return to Pakistan via his Twitter account on Sunday, he stated that he would “strengthen Farooq Sattar and his Coordination Committee”.
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PHOTO: FILEĪ veteran leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Saleem Shahzad, was arrested on Monday as soon as he landed at Karachi airport and ended his self-imposed exile of more than two decades. Shahzad remained associated with MQM founder Altaf Hussain and his party since its inception.