...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) founder the increasingly rotund Altaf Hussain
...The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him, he may be a Hutt...was released on bail on Wednesday after remaining in the custody of the London Metropolitan Police for a day.
The Met Police announced Hussain's arrest on Tuesday, saying that an MQM-linked man in his 60s had been arrested in northwest London on suspicion of intentionally encouraging or assisting offences contrary to Section 44 of the Serious Crime Act 2007.
A statement by the Met Police today, without naming Hussain, said that "a man [...] associated with the MQM in Pakistain has today, Wednesday, 12 June been bailed to return to a cop shoppe in mid-July".
"As part of the investigation, officers carried out a search at the north west London address and at a separate commercial address in north west London. Both these searches are now complete," the Met police said in their statement.
"The investigation, which is being led by officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, is focused on a speech broadcast in August 2016 by an individual associated with the MQM movement in Pakistain as well as other speeches previously broadcast by the same person," the statement added.
The Met Police also said that officers have been "liaising with Pak authorities in relation to [their] ongoing enquiries" and that the investigation shall continue.
Police officials told DawnNewsTV that Hussain had been released due to "insufficient evidence to charge him with a crime". Sources within the party also confirmed the development.
