Islamabad : Altaf Hussain, chief of Pakistani political party
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), is being treated at a London hospital
for the past one week, a statement said Monday.
The party statement, however, did not reveal details about his illness, Geo News reported.
The MQM, which was a part of the federal coalition led by the
Pakistan Peoples Party of President Asif Ali Zardari, quit earlier this
year due to differences on a range of issues ranging from power sharing
to the war on terror.
Hussain who lives in exile in London, regularly speaks to his
followers in Karachi on the telephone, attracting tens of thousands of
people. He fled Pakistan in 1992 after a military operation in Karachi,
requested political asylum in Britain and has now become a citizen of
the country.
Senior MQM leader Imran Farooq, a close aide of Hussain, was killed in an ambush in London in September 2010. IANS
