British MP aims to have MQM declared terrorist organisation

KARACHI: British Pakistani Labour MP from Bradford WestNaz Shah on Saturday said that she will try to get Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) declared as a terrorist organisation.

Speaking during Geo News’ program ‘Naya Pakistan’, she said that a British judge had held MQM responsible for the killing of 200 policemen in Karachi.

She said that cases against MQM founder should be put on the fast track, adding that London police might take time but a strong case would be made against MQM founder.

The MQM founder, from whom the party's Pakistan-based Rabita Committee recently disassociated itself after a Rangers-led crackdown following the August 22 incidents, has been living in self-imposed exile in Britain for over two decades.

The MQM founder is currently also facing charges of money laundering in London by the Metropolitan Police.

Earlier today, UK condemned the violence perpetrated in Karachi on August 22 following an anti-Pakistan speech by MQM founder to party workers outside the Karachi Press Club.

According to officials, the Interior Ministry has received its first official response from the British government on the violent incidents.

Late last month, the Interior Ministry sent a reference to the British government, providing them evidence against the MQM founder for inciting the public in Karachi to violence and disorder through his speeches from London.