KARACHI: Rift between Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) intensifiedas Farooq Sattar and Rabita Committee nominated separate candidates forSenate elections.
Sattar and Rabita Committee factions arrived at the office of ECP inKarachi on Thursday with their respective Senate candidates where the twogroups mildly talked with one another. Faisal Sabzwari even cried whileputting his head on Sattar s shoulder.
MQM-P leader Faisal Sabzwari warned of bad consequences if thedisagreements continued. He admitted that the matters have not yet beenresolved, expressing happiness as Sattar agreed to chair party meeting atBahadurabad.
He stressed that they will not let the disintegration happen, andhighlighted that it is not right to stick to the wrongdoing.
On the other hand, Sattar claimed that the party faced more damage in thelast four days than during the reports of merger with PSP. He pointed outthat the convener or party head should be allowed to make decisions incertain matters.
Meanwhile, Sattar has agreed upon chairing a meeting at party’s temporaryBahadurabad headquarters. A delegation of representatives including Sattarfrom the PIB Colony office will reach Bahadurabad where the two groups willtry to sort out matters.
Both the groups will put forward their nominated names and will finalizethem with mutual agreement, Farooq Sattar said during media talk.
His nominated candidates include Kamran Tessori, Ali Raza Abidi, HassanFeroz, Ahmed Chinoi, Kashwar Zehra, Mangla Sharma, Sanjay Parvani, FarhanChisti and Dr. Nighat
However, the disgruntled faction led by Amir Khan has nominated FarooqNaseem, Nasreen Jalil, Abdul Qadir Khanzada, Aminul Haq and Amir Chisti.
A row hit MQM-P after Rabta Committee removed Kamran Tessori, Sattar’sfavoured candidate for Senate elections, from the coordination committeeand suspended him for six months.
The suspension resulted into a split within the party with Farooq Sattarcoming at odds with the Rabta Committee members.