Saturday, September 25, 2010

Altaf condemns verdict against Aafia Siddiqui

LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Altaf Hussain says that enemies of MQM who murdered Dr. Imran Farooq are now after his life.

In a telephonic address to a condolence meeting at the party’s headquarters on Friday night, he said, “Now the enemies of the movement are after my life, but I want to tell them that I am not afraid of anyone, whether it’s a superpower like the United States or its NATO's allies or their Pakistani agents. I fear the Almighty Allah and will never bow down before the conspirators even if they get my British citizenship rescinded.”

He said that 86 years of imprisonment awarded to Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is deplorable, adding if his party was in power, it would have severed diplomatic ties with the United States.

He said some journalists are distorting facts to save the killers of Dr. Imran Farooq.

Misleading stories are being written against MQM, he said, urging the nation to differentiate between friends and foes