Altaf Hussain: Will the London jury decide to change the 'minus Altaf Hussain' formula?
Altaf Hussain: Will the London jury decide to change the 'minus Altaf Hussain' formula? Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has been charged in a London court with inciting activists to commit terrorism. Has been declared 'victory'
Altaf Hussain: Will the London jury decide to change the 'minus Altaf Hussain' formula?
was accused of allegedly chanting anti-Pakistan slogans in two separate speeches by telephone from London on August 22, 2016, and sent his supporters to Karachi Rangers headquarters as well as ARY, Geo and Sama offices. Was provoked to attack.
A 12-member jury in Kingston Crown Court in London, after nine hours of deliberations, found Altaf Hussain guilty of both charges in a majority decision.
MQM London and its leadership are banned unannounced in Pakistan, while broadcasting Altaf's picture and speech on TV channels has also been banned.
Political analyst Prof. Dr. Tauseef Ahmed says that the decision of the British jury to acquit Altaf Hussain has definitely given a new political life but this decision is not acceptable to the Pakistani establishment. He will not be able to take any action unless his condition is rectified by the Establishment, so he will not get any major breakthrough.
Murtaza Ali Shah, a senior journalist in London and who has been following the case from the investigation of the allegation to the verdict of the jury, says that Altaf Hussain has got a new lease of life, if anyone is tried at this age. And secondly, if he is accused of terrorism, then his statement is completely empty.
"The phones of the people who were with him kept ringing," he says. I received many phone calls asking for information. There were four leaders of MQM Pakistan who took updates but they did not want Altaf Hussain to be acquitted.
Senior journalist and analyst Mazhar Abbas says, “First they brought a face in the case of Mustafa Kamal. After that MQM split in London and Pakistan but MQM Pakistan did not win some seats. The PPP took some.
Professor Tauseef Ahmed says that the factions of MQM have nothing to give. His ally Imran Khan also did not give anything from which he had hoped. They do not have the power to rescue their people from the Rangers or to open their own organizational offices even though it was decided by Imran Khan that the offices would be opened.