Altaf Hussain says no power can crush MQM

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain Tuesday said no power on earth, including America and Britain, can crush his party as long as it had support of Allah Almighty and the people.

“History tells us that mass movements, which adopt peaceful means to achieve their objectives, may be suppressed for a while, but they cannot be crushed,” Altaf Hussain maintained while addressing rallies via telephone simultaneously in Karachi, Hyderabad, MirpurKhas, Nawabshah, Shanghar and Tando Allahyar on the occasion of his birthday.

The MQM Chief said he had never violated British Laws and always preached his followers the virtues of patience and restraint. He warned the world that MQM’s policy of restraint should not be construed as weakness.

At the outset of his address, he paid rich tributes to MQM’s slain convener Dr. Imran Farooq and prayed for the departed soul.

Hussain said that he had been telling people for a long time that some forces on national and International levels had become active against MQM. He termed the articles and reports published about him in the well-known American and British newspapers as baseless and false. He said derogatory language was against him in these stories.

He added that MQM’s rivals have started displaying what he called their political bias. “Some people have said MQM’s days are numbered,” he added.

The MQM supremo told his supporters that MQM’s rivals had been trying to crush the party for 35 years but ‘we have seen that MQM has become stronger by the grace of Allah and our enemies have suffered defeat’.

“In the past MQM’s rivals had labeled me as the agent of Jews, America and Britain. They should be ashamed of their action. The publication of baseless and fabricated articles in the American and British papers has proved that Altaf Hussain is the agent of Allah, Pakistan and the oppressed people of Pakistan.”

He took a pledge from his workers that they would carry on this movement if anything happened to him. The workers present in the gatherings promised they would.