[Dawn] Alleging that a conspiracy is being hatched to stop the party from taking part in the general elections, the 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...
on Friday made it clear that it will not boycott the general elections come what may.
Speaking at a presser held at the MQM headquarters, senior MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar said that frequent killings of party workers and supporters, siege and search operations of 'peaceful Mohajir localities' by the police and Rangers and arrest and torture of innocent people were part of a conspiracy to force the MQM to boycott the general elections.
He said that four MQM sympathisers -- Shakil Ahmed, his cousins Abdul Khaliq and Naveed Ahmed and a rickshaw driver Nadeem Bahadur -- were kidnapped, tortured and killed by armed terrorists, who threw their bodies in Shershah and Mewashah graveyard on Friday.
He said that the four slain men attended the inauguration ceremony of the central election office of the MQM for NA-249 on Thursday.
He said that the killing of MQM office-bearers, workers and supporters by armed hard boyz had become a routine feature in the city. "The political and religious parties of Pakistain are busy in their election campaigns and the MQM is busy in burying its leaders, workers and sympathisers."