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| Saulat Mirza was in touch with MQM chief before arrest, claims wife |
| 2015-04-01 |
| [DAWN] The wife of condemned prisoner Saulat Mirza claimed on Monday that the former Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) worker was in touch with party chief Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... and the big shotship prior to his arrest on Dec 10, 1998. In an interview aired on Geo News on Monday, Nikhat Mirza, the wife of the death row prisoner, claimed that senior MQM leader Farooq Sattar had informed her during her last visit to the party's Nine Zero headquarters in February this year that the party's role in connection with Mirza's case was over and that Mirza's family was now on its own. She termed the MQM's severing of what she called their once strong ties "a brutal joke" and added that "since then we were not even allowed to move beyond Mukka Chowk." The famous Mukka Chowk -- decorated with the coal-black sculpture of a clenched fist that rests atop an inverted funnel on the roundabout, lies about half-a-kilometre from MQM headquarters Nine Zero. Mirza's wife said her husband would not have made any revelations had the MQM not disowned him. She said her husband was shocked by the party's move and regretted his association with MQM. One of the reasons given by the MQM for disowning Saulat was that his family had misbehaved with senior party members, according to Saulat's wife. She elaborated that Saulat's sister had slapped a member of the MQM Rabita Committee when the mercy appeal of the condemned prisoner was rejected in January this year. She said Saulat's statement, which had not been given under any pressure, needed to be probed and investigated. She added that the former MQM worker had not made the statement expecting any reprieve but only to warn others from treading the same path as he did. |
| Posted by:Fred |