MQM-P to celebrate victory at Jinnah Ground today

Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan Deputy Convener Anees Kaimkhani has said the results of the February 8 general elections have completely proven the notion that the cities of Karachi and Hyderabad both belong to the MQM.

Kaimkhani was talking to media persons on Saturday night after he visited the Jinnah Ground in Azizabad to review arrangements for the programme to be held at the venue on Sunday (today’s) evening to celebrate the MQM’s latest poll victory. Members of the MQM’s Coordination Committee were also present on the occasion. He said his party was going to celebrate the party’s impressive victory in the February 8 elections in a grand manner and thank the residents of Karachi and Hyderabad for voting in favour of the MQM candidates.

He appealed to the people of Karachi to attend the celebratory programme at the Jinnah Ground in large numbers and take part in the festivities.

Kaimkhani mentioned that the Jamaat-e-Islami had secured a victory in the last local government elections only after the MQM had decided to stay away from the municipal polls held in Karachi.

He said that the JI’s latest protest drive against alleged rigging in the February 8 general elections had no basis. He said that the latest winter rains had exposed the hallow performance of the town and union committee chairmen belonging to the JI.

He said that the MQM-Pakistan would enter into negotiations with different political parties before the formation of the next government to achieve its aim of amending the constitution to effectively empower the local government system. He claimed that the independently elected candidates had also been in touch with the MQM-Pakistan.

Kaimkhani further stated that MQM would also strive to take back its mandate in the local government system to turn around Karachi and improve its civic and municipal facilities. He said his party had emphatically advocated the case of the Karachiites, who had been gravely suffering due to the sheer lack of basic municipal and civic services. He said that the people of Karachi would soon get good news in this regard.