Five MQM lawmakers go underground to avoid arrests

July 21, 2015

Fear of arrest has restricted the movement of at least five MNAs of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to Karachi. These lawmakers will not be able to attend the coming session of the assembly.

 

Abdul Rasheed Godil, MQM’s deputy parliamentary leader in the assembly, told Dawn on phone from an unspecified location that he and four other MQM MNAs — parliamentary leader of party in the NA Dr Farooq Sattar, Salman Mujahid Baloch, Mohammad Rehan Hashmi and Kishwar Zahra — had gone underground.

 

These five MNAs were among 24 party activists and 150 unidentified people against whom a case was registered with the Godap Town police station for listening an allegedly offensive speech by MQM chief Altaf Hussain.

 

According to a video circulating on social media, Mr Hussain accused Sindh Rangers chief of violating the army’s code of conduct.

 

“Knowing that our warrants of arrest have been issued, we can neither travel to Islamabad to attend the coming NA session, nor move to other parts of Sindh. We have gone underground to avoid the arrest,” Mr Godil said.

 

By;Shia Post