A top Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM - London) leader met with Senator John McCain and briefed him about the crackdown on his party members by Pakistan’s security forces in the port city of Karachi.
MQM Convener Nadeem Nusrat told McCain, who chairs the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, that liberal and progressive political party MQM is facing state oppression whereas Islamic militant groups are being harbored in Karachi.
“MQM Convener Nadeem Nusrat met with Senator John McCain and briefed him about the crackdown on MQM and Mohajirs by paramilitary Rangers in Karachi,” the MQM said in a statement.
Nusrat along with another local MQM leader met McCain during an event in the Virginia suburb of Washington DC.