ISLAMABAD: Provincial President of PML-Q Ameer Muqam has said that
the two political parties, MQM and ANP, should be barred from
contesting elections until they clarified their positions in the
aftermath of recent accusations they hurled against each other.
In
his interview with Online on Sunday, while commenting on the blames by
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) against Awami National Party (ANP) and
former Interior Minister of Sindh Zulfiqar Mirza’s accusation against
MQM, Engineer Amir Muqam said people doubted the two parties.
“Supreme
Court must ban the two parties until they prove themselves innocent in
the court of law as MQM Chief Altaf Hussain’s had held Quraan in his
hand when he was blaming the ANP for killing people and Mirza also said
under oath that MQM was behind killing people,” he said.
He
said that the two parties were blamed for conspiring to disband
Pakistan and kidnap as well as torture people. Nobody is ascertain
about the accuracy of the blames against each other, however, it is
clear that Karachi was turned as a bloody city and the two parties play
politics on bloods of poor people, Muqam added. “We don’t know as who
is the real guilty or whether both of them are guilty or not,” he
further said. He said that allowing them to contest elections
especially in Karachi in this situation would be dangerous and
therefore I say that the parties should be banned.
To a
question whether only accusations are sufficient for banning a legal
political parties, he said, “I never say that they should be banned
forever, yes anyone of them should get himself clarified of the blames
and prove in the apex court innocent before the approaching elections
and that the allegations were baseless. Then only the party that gets
itself clarified could take part in the coming elections.
It
has not become clear as whether banning the two parties is an official
stand of the PML-Q, an allied party of the ruling alliance consisting
of ANP and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), or these were personal views
of Ameer Muqam. MQM has now again expressed its willingness to rejoin
the alliance quit by it few months back.
Online repeatedly tried to contact PML-Q spokesman Mushahid Hussain Sayed for his official version but he was not available. Online
