KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chief Mustafa Kamal has said he had exposed the links between Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain and India’s intelligence agency RAW four years ago.
Addressing a press conference, the PSP chief said the MQM was finished after August 22, 2016, referring to the incident after Altaf Hussain raised anti-state slogans and instigated his workers to attack media houses, but was revived to the “doctrine of necessity.”
“The MQM-Pakistan was founded due to the doctrine of necessity. MQM is raising the same flag of their founder,” he said. “Their name, flag, symbol of kite were given by the MQM founder,” he asserted.
Mustafa Kamal said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) received votes from the Urdu-speaking community Karachi after the 2018 general elections and the people of the city were immensely disappointed and have stood by them ever since.
He lashed out at MQM leaders Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and Amir Khan for not forgetting their past and siding with the MQM founder. “The government will not allow to forget the MQM founder. People remember the MQM founder when they hear about the MQM,” he said.
He claimed that Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui visited India in 20o0 on the directives of Altaf Hussain and is now the chief of MQM. “Khalid Maqbool sat with RAW and spoke against Pakistan and tore his Pakistani passport,” he said.
He added that India issued Khalid Maqbool a diplomatic passport on which he visited the United States where he was arrested and was later released on bail. He said that Siddiqui returned to Pakistan after thirteen years abroad.
He said MQM-Pakistan still stands together and still is working on its agenda. He said RAW ‘sleeper cell’ was exposed in Karachi recently, and the alleged RAW agents have claimed to be working with Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui.
“I do not have personal enmity with anyone, but MQM-Pakistan and MQM-London is the same,” he maintained. “By establishing the MQM-Pakistan, the MQM was safeguarded.”
He said Khalid Maqbool use speak the truth and should engage in politics in his own name, adding the MQM founder cannot hold live broadcasts but is addressing his workers on social media. He said the presence of the MQM’s name, flag and symbol poses a grave threat to national security.
Kamal allegations come days after Pakistan unveiled a dossier containing “irrefutable evidence” of India’s sponsorship of terrorism in the country. A joint press conference by the foreign minister and military spokesman also stated that the Altaf Hussain group was funded by RAW through two Indian companies and there was evidence of a transfer of $3.23 million.
The DG ISPR said the terrorist Ajmal Pahari had confessed in a statement that India had established four training camps for the Altaf Hussain group of militants in India.
