Haroon, Shahzad, Siddiqui unlikely to be part of MQM body

KARACHI: An extraordinary meeting of Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) general workers has gone underway at the party’s headquarters, Nine Zero, here on Sunday, in the backdrop of the recent crisis in the biggest political stakeholder of the metropolis.

Names for some of the members of Karachi Tanzeemi Committee, which was dissolved recently, are expected to be announced in today’s meeting while a few names from the ad-hoc Rabita Committee are likely to be included in the new Rabita Committee.

Meanwhile, senior leaders of MQM who had been serving on responsible positions within the organization for the past decade appear baffled in the backdrop of the recent developments in the party following the May 11 general elections.

It is pertinent to mention here that Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had surprisingly emerged as the second biggest party of Karachi in the May 11 polls which, according to some analysts, could be the reason for the existing disquiet within the MQM’s ranks.

In today’s meeting of the MQM some of its leaders are conspicuously silent while excitement of other leaders is also very much visible.

It has been learnt that the ad-hoc Rabita Committee has decided not to include Raza Haroon, Salim Shahzad and Asif Siddiqui in the new Rabita Committee of MQM.

Anis Ahmed Khan Advocate has also been set aside from his position on charges of violating MQM’s code of conduct.