LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain
has handed over party affairs to the Coordination Committee, MQM
Spokesman Wasay Jalil said early Wednesday.
A statement shared by Jalil on Twitter
says "Keeping in view statements made by MQM leader Farooq Sattar and
other MQM members, I hand over powers of reorganisation, policy making
and decision making to the Rabita Committee."
"I will continue to focus on improving my health in line with the Coordination Committee's suggestions," Hussain said.
The
MQM chief claimed he was "under acute stress" due to back-to-back
'incidents', upsetting news and working on party business day and night.
The party chief also apologised for hurting the sentiments of Pakistanis due to his earlier anti-Pakistan remarks.
'Altaf not taken into confidence'
Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Khwaja
Izahrul Hassan while speaking to DawnNews on Tuesday said that the MQM
supremo and other party party leadership in London were not consulted
prior to holding the press conference.
During a press conference at Karachi Press Club on
Tuesday, Farooq Sattar announced: "From now onwards, decisions will be
made in Pakistan. This message is for the London office as well as for
Pakistan office-bearers; something which the Quaid won’t disagree with."
Baaghi reported that Sattar,
after being released from Rangers custody, spoke to party leaders,
lawmakers, including some of those who were abroad, as well as the
London-based members of the coordination committee, and communicated his
decision to disown Hussain’s statement and take over the MQM.
Altaf
Hussain has been running the day-to-day organisational affairs of the
party over phone from the confines of his palatial London residence and
the international secretariat for a long time, although he does not hold
any office in the MQM, which is a political party registered with the
Election Commission of Pakistan in the name of Dr Farooq Sattar.
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