Altaf takes back decision hours after resigning as MQM chief

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Altaf takes back decision hours after resigning as MQM chief
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Monday took back his decision to resign from the post – hours after he announced that he no longer wanted to run the party affairs.

A statement from the MQM Rabita Committee confirmed that the MQM founder had taken back his decision and would continue to be the party's chief.




Earlier on Monday morning, the MQM chief spoke to the party’s office-bearers at Nine-Zero via telephone from London and said that he did not have the ‘energy or patience’ to run the party affairs.

He had urged the workers to dissolve the ‘movement’ and concentrate on running Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF) to serve mankind, the party’s charity oraganisation.

The MQM chief had said that his decision was final this time and that all party activities should be halted from now on. “I will not be addressing the workers from now on,” he had said.

The MQM chief was apparently unhappy about the party leaders’ reaction on allegations hurled at him by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan.

He had said that the workers were free to choose another leader with consensus.

The party workers, however, refused to abide by his latest decision and chanted slogans in his favour. “I cannot do everything alone in the party,” said the MQM chief.

This is neither the first time that the MQM chief has resigned from the party, nor the first time that he has taken back his decision. He has made similar decisions in the past as well only to take them back on workers’ insistence.