MQM to challenge Karachi delimitation: Altaf Hussain

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQ) Chief Altaf Hussain has termed the delimitation of Karachi constituencies as illegal and announced that his party would challenge the move in the courts, Geo News reported.

Addressing a meeting of MQM’s Coordination Committee simultaneously held in Karachi and London also attended by legal experts of the party, he directed them to file petitions against the Election Commission decision for carrying out delimitation as the practice was illegal following the announcement of election date and schedule.

He demanded of the Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G Ibrahim to immediately withdraw the notification regarding the delimitations which he said was a conspiracy to steal MQM’s mandate.

Rejecting a report produced before the Supreme Court about presence of an armed wing in the MQM, he said that there was no room for criminal elements in the party.