Altaf asks workers to remain peaceful

LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain, who is in police detention since yesterday, asked sympathizers and workers of his party at MQM London Secretariat via telephone to remain strong and peaceful.

The founder leader of MQM told the party workers to refrain from taking law into their hands.

Altaf Hussain’s message was read out to the workers staging a sit-in at Numaish Chowrangi Karachi.

“The phases of trial and tribulations in the path of ‘Haq Parast’ struggle are not anything new for me,” Altaf Hussain said, adding, he had combated similar circumstances in the past and even today his spirits have not hit ground.

He further said: “Neither did I disappoint the nation in the past nor would I do it in future.”

Altaf Hussain also spoke to her daughter Afza Altaf on the phone.

Altaf Hussain, 60, was arrested from his residence located in North Western London at pre-dawn on Tuesday. According to reports, dozens of London police officials turned up at Altaf Hussain’s residence to execute the arrest.

Until last reports, the detained MQM leader, who had stayed in self-imposed exile in London since 1991, was taken to a hospital in London for getting his medical tests done.