Imran Khan says Mustafa Kamal presser reaffirms PTI stance

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday said Mustafa Kamal has reaffirmed his party’s stance about MQM chief Altaf Hussain.

The PTI chairman was commenting on allegations that former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal levlled against Altaf Hussain during a fiery tell-all press conference earlier today.

In a message posted on twitter, Imran Khan said: “Mustafa Kamal reaffirmed what we had been saying all along. The tyranny of Altaf Hussain including his own.”

Mustafa Kamal today reaffirmed what we had been saying all along: the tyranny of Altaf Hussain including on his own supporters.

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) March 3, 2016

Mustafa Kamal also announced a new party in a direct challenge to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) during his press conference.

Flanked by former fellow MQM colleague Anees Qaimkhani, this was the first media appearance by the two leaders after a prolonged absence from local political scene and rifts with the leadership of their former party.

Kamal lashed out sharply at MQM chief Altaf Hussain, with whom the former Karachi mayor has had a falling out since years since he left the party and moved to Dubai.

He accused Altaf Hussain of insulting the party workers several times in public meetings, especially once in May 2013 when he changed the party set up overnight.

The former Karachi nazim recalled that during his time in the MQM, the party's Rabita Committee would continuously be degraded and insulted by Altaf Hussain within weeks and months, but recently the situation had worsened so much that the Rabita Committee would now be insulted every few minutes.

What was first done in private settings was being done in public through media channels, he said.

Kamal also recalled how the MQM Rabita Committee was manhandled by people when the PTI secured 800,000 votes.