LONDON – MQM founder Altaf Hussain has resurfaced before the GeneralElections 2018.
He announced that his party would boycott the 2018 general elections,accusing the ‘establishment’ of manipulating the polls.
“I request all the democratic people to boycott such elections,” theMQM-London chief said, adding that “every single ‘millennial’ is requestedto stop their elders from participating in the polls by keeping them intheir homes”.
Meanwhile, MQM-Pakistan leader Farooq Sattar has also warned earlier thathis party could boycott the forthcoming electionslink>iftheir reservations were not addressed.
“Elections cannot guarantee our survival; the injustices done to us are infront of everyone,” Sattar said.
He feared that the elections in Karachi could be ‘fixed’. “A conspiracy isbeing hatched in Karachi. It was not only a minus-one formula that changedthe political atmosphere of the metropolis; rather it was a minus-MQMformula that was in the process,” he said in a candid discussion.