KARACHI, Pakistan: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has demanded Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to clarify the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) position over the Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s recent remarks about Muhajirs.
In a press conference held by the MQM Rabta Committee in Karachi on Tuesday, the party leader Dr Farooq Sattar said that more than 50 million Muhajir have been forced to think a lot after such statement by Khawaja Asif in the parliament.
On Monday speaking on the floor of the National Assembly and later in a talk show ‘Nadeem Malik Live’, Khawaja Asif said that only those people who came to Pakistan from Indian cities of Ludhiana and Jalandhar are genuine Muhajirs while all the rest are fake Muhajirs.
The defence minister said that no collaboration with the MQM is possible unless the party becomes a genuine political party rather than an ethnic group.
“Khawaja Asif used extremely inappropriate language in National Assembly last night, we strongly condemn it,” Farooq Sattar said.
Sattar said that the minister’s statement about those migrated from India other than Ludhiana and Jalandhar are fake Mujahir is extremely biased.
Meanwhile, the MQM Chief Altaf Hussain has once again announced to step down as the party leader over the remarks made by Khawaja Asif regarding Muhajirs.
Talking to Geo news, Altaf Hussain lashed out at the National Assembly claiming that the ‘Muhajir community had been mocked and enough was enough’.
