KARACHI: Within a week of its political break-up with the PakistanTehreek-i-Insaf government, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan hasclaimed that it was not their own choice to join the Imran Khan-ledgovernment following the 2018 general elections as they were ‘forced’ to doso.
They said that when the party first decided to quit the coalition it becamea target of political vendetta that led to arrest of MQM-P workers and evenleaders.
The claim came at the party’s workers’ meeting held in Bahadurabad late onWednesday night where senior leader Senator Faisal Subzwari recalled thesituation developed after the 2018 general elections when the MQM-P hadentered into an agreement with the PTI leadership that promised resolutionof problems of urban areas of Sindh.
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Under the agreement, in addition to other demands, a university inHyderabad was to be established and an empowered local government systemwas supposed to be put in place in the province, he added.
