ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-N has asked Altaf Hussain, the chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to return to Pakistan and face murder charges leveled against him by the Sindh High Court.
Spokesman of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Central Information Secretary of PML-N, Siddique-ul-Farooq said on Tuesday “we have demand that Altaf Hussain return to Pakistan because he has been summoned by the Sindh High Court in connection with the killings of innocent people in Karachi on May 3, 2007 along with former President Pervez Musharraf and Governor of Sindh Ishratul Ibad.”
Siddique-ul-Farooq was reacting to a telephone address made on Monday by Hussain in which he claimed that over 15,000 MQM supporters were killed in an operation conducted by the Pakistan Army in 1992. Sharif was prime minister at the time.
Days earlier, Pakistan’s former spy chief under the Sharif government, Ret. Brig. Imtiaz Ahmad, went on national TV and said the army received the go ahead to carry out the operation against terrorists when a map of Karachi as an independent state came to light. However, the then Corps Commander of Karachi, Ret. Lt. Gen. Naseer Akhtar denied the allegations. “At the time, there was no proposal from MQM to separate Karachi and turn it into a Hong Kong-like semi-autonomous state.”
