Addressing the joint press conference, Farooq Sattar said that the two parties discussed what role the MQM could play while being in the opposition.
Hussain said that he was not President Zardari’s messenger, and had come to nine-zero to discuss the city’s situation. He made it clear that his party did not support aggression against anyone. The PML-Q would stand by the MQM and in this regard, and it would not care whether the PML-Q or the MQM sat in the treasury or the opposition benches.
He said that leaders of all political parties in the country should visit Karachi and find concrete solution to the tug of war and lawlessness in an amicable manner. He said that the Karachi’s issue was quite sensitive and it ought not to be resolved only through lip service.
Hussain said that PML-Q would play its role in case there is an operation against the MQM or the people of the city.
Hussain was interrupted during his speech by a woman who asked where her son was. Chaudhry Shujaat, had served as the interior minister during both Nawaz Sharif’s governments in which targeted operations against the MQM were carried out in Karachi. During the operations many young men had disappeared from Karachi.
The MQM leadership had shown clips of violence in Karachi to the PML-Q chief, whose party had recently decided to switch sides from being in the opposition to joint the government. After watching the clips, Hussain said that he had been saddened to witness the pain of the affected people of Qasba Colony and Gulfam Abad. He said that he, and his party would work for a practical approach to redress the affected people.
Hussain said that he could feel the pain of the affected people because he had also lost his father in an act of terrorism.
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