KARACHI: Three senior members of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) were called to support a Rabita Committee delegation that had earlier failed to appease party convener Farooq Sattar.
Sattar, who abruptly left a party meeting on Monday over a disagreement on Senate candidate nominations, also refused to call off a general workers’ meeting to be held later today, sources said.
“Nasreen Jalil, Faisal Subzwari, and Wasim Akhtar are now part of the six-member delegation in talks with Farooq bhai [brother]” announced party leader Aminul Haque.
“MQM-P is a democratic party; we have extended an invitation to Farooq bhai to come [to the party office] and lead the party,” Haque told the media during a Rabita Committee press conference on Tuesday evening.
According to information obtained by Geo News, the MQM-P leader also refused to visit the party’s office in Bahadurabad and maintained his stance on giving Senate tickets to party members earlier nominated by him.
Subzwari had, earlier today, announced that a three-member delegation had been sent to Sattar to ‘talk matters out.’
“The Rabita Committee has given the mandate to a three-member delegation which includes Sardar Ahmad, Rauf Siddiqui, and Javed Hanif to discuss matters with Farooq bhai [brother],” he told the media.
“In the past, Rabita Committee only made suggestions and decisions were made in London but now all decisions are made in Pakistan.”
Sattar, Khan call separate meetings
The rumoured division within party ranks had turned out to be fact than fiction as senior party leaders, Sattar and senior deputy convener Amir Khan, called separate meetings today.
Sattar has called a general workers’ meeting today at KMC ground to decide the future course of action of the party, adding that he would speak on certain matters in the session that he never addressed before.
“I will inform about the obstructions I faced in making decisions for the past 15 months,” he had said.
