KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said on Wednesday that there is a need to reunite on this day to hunt down killers of the slain former party leader Ali Raza Abidi.
The MQM-P leader was speaking on Geo News show ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath' along with Pakistan Sarzameen Party chief Mustafa Kamal and former MQM-P leader Farooq Sattar.
Siddiqui said that Abidi received threats and it was something of concern, adding that the murdered party leader wanted to reunite all the factions of the now defunct MQM.
Farooq Sattar said that he was expelled from the party but he still speaks in favour of a reunion for the Mohajir cause.
“Ali Raza embarked on this mission after asking me… He had my complete support,” said Sattar.
He said that he is offering that a Muttahida counsel should be made within the next two days.
PSP’s Mustafa Kamal said that he doesn’t want the MQM factions to remain separated, however, he cannot promote the politics of hatred.
“In Karachi, the census failed to mention seven million people. If they couldn’t count the people how can they give justice to me?” said the PSP leader, whose two party leaders were gunned down before Abidi’s assassination.
Slain politician and former MQM-Pakistan lawmaker Ali Raza Abidi was laid to rest in Karachi earlier on Wednesday.
Abidi was shot multiple times outside his residence in Khayaban-e-Ghazi neighbourhood of DHA on Tuesday night by unknown assailants, who fled from the scene. He was shifted to PNS Shifa Hospital in critical condition where he succumbed to his wounds.