KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) leader Mustafa Kamal on Thursday opened doors for MQM Pakistan chairman Farooq Sattar and his party in PSP.
During an interview in Geo News’ program ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath’, he said that the position earned by MQM Pakistan was because of PSP.
“We are showing this flexibility because I don’t have my own agenda. We respect Farooq bhai and will continue to do so”, he said.
Kamal said that PSP would be there to rescue MQM Pakistan whenever it falls. “The floor beneath Farooq bhai is very shallow. We will be there to rescue them whenever they fall”, he added.
To a question about offering chairmanship of PSP to Farooq Sattar, Kamal said that such things don’t matter and cannot be discussed in the media.
About Scotland Yard’s announcement regarding the dropping of money laundering case, PSP leader said that he wasn’t surprised by the outcome.
“I had always said that the case will not be pursued. It is a political decision, not an administrative or legal one”, he added.
He said that if ever the case is presented to the court, people will MQM founder Altaf Hussain.
Kamal also said that Indian spy agency RAW was caught red-handed by Scotland Yard in the case.
He further said that it was not in UK’s national interest to pursue the case, therefore, they dropped it.
Earlier, Scotland Yard announced that no “further action will be taken against Altaf Hussain” and others in the long-running money-laundering case, deciding to drop the investigation altogether and effectively ensuring that the sensitive evidence involved in this case doesn’t go to public for fear of causing rifts between Pakistan, the UK and India.
The case against the MQM chief Altaf Hussain started at the end of 2012 when the police found a large amount of cash at the MQM’s International Secretariat.
Scotland Yard said during the course of the investigation that it had “credible evidence that the MQM received funds from the Indian government sources and broke the electoral laws of Pakistan and the UK”.
Hammersmith Magistrates Court had given deadline to the police to produce evidence in the court on next Wednesday on the application of Sarfraz Merchant, a co-accused in the money-laundering case, along with Tariq Mir, M Anwar, Yasin Haji, Latif Jiwa and others.
The News had said in a report on May 21 that Scotland Yard has passed incomplete case file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for the charging decision giving birth to questions about the very future of the whole investigation.