Hussain says forces conspiring to dismember Pak,kill him

They will not be slave to the foreign forces conspiring against them says Hussain.

MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Friday blamed the violence in Karachi on conspiracies by foreign forces to disintegrate Pakistan,and claimed that certain elements wanted him “dead”.

Addressing a joint emergency meeting of the MQM Raabta Committee in London and Karachi,Hussain said these forces wanted him dead as they considered MQM a big hurdle in their plans to split Pakistan.

Hussain said no force could suppress the peace-loving Urdu-speaking people and that they will not be slave to the foreign forces conspiring against them.

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He also directed the Raabta Committee to send two witnesses for the submission of his will in which he has advised workers and members of the party to carry on his mission even if he is killed.

“No conspiracy to destabilise the MQM. They are people trying to show that the mandate given to the MQM is a sham but they will not succeed as people are with us,” he added.

The statement from the MQM chief came after days of speculation that the British authorities had stopped him from travelling to South Africa and also house arrested him,rumours denied by the MQM leadership in strong words.

Hussain’s claim also comes days after the former Sindh home minister,Zulfiqar Mirza,resigned and accused him and his party of being behind the killing of innocent people in Karachi.

MQM is the single largest party in Karachi.

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According to a report in Dawn,Hussain also accused Asfandyar Wali Khan of Awami National party of “being on the payroll of the Americans and that he had been given millions of dollars by the United States to win elections”