Urdu-speaking should show some more patience: Altaf Hussain

LONDON: Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) leader, Altaf Hussain, has said that the Urdu-speaking should show some more patience just as they have been doing in the past, Geo News reported.

In a statement issued here, he said, “If the high public offices of Sindh continue to be forbidden for the Urdu-speaking people, then the Co-ordination Committee and the Urdu-speaking Sindhis would be free to take any decision regarding their future within their rights.”

He said this while talking to the members of the Co-ordination Committee in London and Pakistan on Thursday night.

Hussain said, “The Urdu-speaking people, in particular, and the public in general, had been listening to my appeals for peace and patience. They sacrificed thousands of lives but showed patience and did not take the law into their hands. I would ask them to bear with patience a little more.”

He said, “If the establishment of Sindh and the prejudicial nationalist elements did not change their attitude, continued to down look upon the descendents of the founders of Pakistan as third-rate citizens, kept on mocking the Urdu-speaking people as not being the sons of the soil, and continued to deny Urdu-speaking people the higher public offices, then Co-ordination Committee and the Urdu-speaking Sindhis would be free to decide whatever they like about their future.”

MQM leader further said, “I will accept the decision of the Co-ordination Committee, whether I agree with it or not. I will respect it and support it.”