ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has told the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) that its unit offices — sealed off or razed last year — could not be reopened as the party had lately demanded, it emerged on Friday.
More than 150 unit offices had been sealed off and dozens others dismantled last year after the controversial speech by MQM’s London-based leader Altaf Hussain on Aug 22.
The party has since split into two as Dr Farooq Sattar led its part based in the country by formally dissociating it from the leader in exile and suffixed the party’s name with Pakistan.
After a full year to the closure of the party’s headquarters in Azizabad and unit offices, the MQM leadership had requested the prime minister during his first visit to Karachi after taking the oath last month to reopen the party’s sealed offices and gift a substantial development package to the city.