KARACHI: Within a week of its political break-up with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan has claimed that it was not their own choice to join the Imran Khan-led government following the 2018 general elections as they were ‘forced’ to do so.
They said that when the party first decided to quit the coalition it became a target of political vendetta that led to arrest of MQM-P workers and even leaders.
The claim came at the party’s workers’ meeting held in Bahadurabad late on Wednesday night where senior leader Senator Faisal Subzwari recalled the situation developed after the 2018 general elections when the MQM-P had entered into an agreement with the PTI leadership that promised resolution of problems of urban areas of Sindh.
Under the agreement, in addition to other demands, a university in Hyderabad was to be established and an empowered local government system was supposed to be put in place in the province, he added.