KARACHI – The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM-P) has hit out against the topPTI leader in Karachi who has been tipped off by Imran Khan as theopposition leader in Sindh Assembly.
MQM and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) were unable to restrain theirleaders from making hostile remarks towards each other despite havingjoined forces at the centre.
When the matter of opposition leader for the Sindh Assembly surfaced,Khawaja Izhar-ul-Hassan, who has previously held the same post, tweeted hisdisapproval towards the candidate the PTI is expected to nominate.
He wrote: “Our alliance with the PTI is conditional; these conditions comebefore any individual or party, and include a collaborated effort for thedevelopment of Karachi and urban Sindh and the transfer of the municipalityrepresentatives’ powers.”
The MQM-P “would have reservations should Firdous [Shamim] Naqvi’s name beput forward for the opposition leader post” in the SindhAssembly, Izhar-ul-Hassan added.