MQM will not boycott elections: Farooq Sattar

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar has said that conspiracies are being hatched in a bid to keep his party out of electoral process.

Addressing a press conference here on Friday, the MQM leader said that his party is being forced to boycott elections while the mandate of MQM is being snatched under a planned conspiracy.

Dr Farooq Sattar said that delimitation of constituencies in Karachi was also a part of the conspiracy, however, he added that the MQM would not boycott the forthcoming elections.

The party’s candidates, activists and supporters are also being killed under a planned script and its purpose is to compel MQM for boycotting the upcoming elections, Sattar claimed.

He further said that door-to-door checking in the name of search operations are being conducted in 30 localities of Karachi.

All political parties are working on their election campaigns, while MQM is lifting the coffins of the party workers prior to the polls, he lamented.

“Killings of the workers and supporters have become a daily routine.”

Condemning killings of the activists, Sattar said that funeral prayer of our political worker was offered today in the morning and in the meanwhile four more supporters were killed when the preparations of the worker’s burial were in progress.

Armed terrorists kidnapped the party’s supporters and tortured them to death, while their bodies were thrown to Mewah Shah Graveyard, Sattar added.

Farooq Sattar told that MQM would issue its final list of candidates for polls tomorrow.