MQM still willing to cooperate with PML-N
By: Ashraf Mumtaz | Published: July 17, 2011
LAHORE - Despite the fact that it has decided to support the JUI-F secretary general as leader of the opposition in the Senate, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Saturday expressed conditional willingness to join hands with the PML-N to form an alliance.
MQM chief Altaf Hussain told TheNation by phone from London that if the PML-N gets the JUI-F’s leader removed as opposition leader through the Supreme Court, the MQM would extend support to PML-N’s Ishaq Dar.
He said he had received countless phone calls, fax messages and emails that the MQM should rejoin the PPP-led coalition and allow Dr Ishratul Ebad to resume as Sindh governor. But, he said, “I am facing a very difficult situation. I don’t know what to do”. Altaf said he did not know how he would face the nation by reversing the party’s earlier decision of parting ways with the government and playing the role of an opposition party.
He made it clear that if he ever permitted Dr Ebad to return to Sindh Governor House, he would set tough conditions for it. About the possibility of cooperation with the PML-N, he said now the latter would “have to come to us” as they were the ones who had pelted the MQM with ‘stones’, a euphemism for harsh criticism.
He said he always took decisions in consultation with party leaders and was willing to forge an alliance with the PML-N. “But progress on this front depends on the PML-N’s approach”. He said the PML-N’s future course of action would reflect whether the leadership had learnt any lessons from the past mistakes. “I seriously believe that by sincerely working together we can do a lot (of good work)”.
Answering a question about the MQM’s support for JUI-F’s Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidri for the post of opposition leader in the Senate, Altaf said when the decision on the subject was taken, there were no contacts between the MQM and the PML-N.
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By: Ashraf Mumtaz | Published: July 17, 2011
MQM chief Altaf Hussain told TheNation by phone from London that if the PML-N gets the JUI-F’s leader removed as opposition leader through the Supreme Court, the MQM would extend support to PML-N’s Ishaq Dar.
He said he had received countless phone calls, fax messages and emails that the MQM should rejoin the PPP-led coalition and allow Dr Ishratul Ebad to resume as Sindh governor. But, he said, “I am facing a very difficult situation. I don’t know what to do”. Altaf said he did not know how he would face the nation by reversing the party’s earlier decision of parting ways with the government and playing the role of an opposition party.
He made it clear that if he ever permitted Dr Ebad to return to Sindh Governor House, he would set tough conditions for it. About the possibility of cooperation with the PML-N, he said now the latter would “have to come to us” as they were the ones who had pelted the MQM with ‘stones’, a euphemism for harsh criticism.
He said he always took decisions in consultation with party leaders and was willing to forge an alliance with the PML-N. “But progress on this front depends on the PML-N’s approach”. He said the PML-N’s future course of action would reflect whether the leadership had learnt any lessons from the past mistakes. “I seriously believe that by sincerely working together we can do a lot (of good work)”.
Answering a question about the MQM’s support for JUI-F’s Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidri for the post of opposition leader in the Senate, Altaf said when the decision on the subject was taken, there were no contacts between the MQM and the PML-N.
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