MQM dissolves core committee
New members to be elected tomorrow in a spate of reforms within the party
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) yesterday dissolved its Coordination Committee, the supreme decision making body of the party and new members would be elected tomorrow in a recent spate of reforms within the party.
The administration committee at the MQM headquarters was also disbanded, the party said.
Altaf Hussain, the MQM chief who lives in exile in London, addressing the party workers and officer bearers announced the dissolution of the central coordination committee. More than three dozen senior leaders were the part of the committee based in London and Karachi. Hussain formed a 12-member ad hoc panel to look after the party affairs until next committee is formed tomorrow.
Reforms
The MQM has already annulled the Karachi Organisation Committee, a powerful wing of the party that oversees the core organisation issues of the party in Karachi, the stronghold of MQM. The basic membership of Hammad Siddiqui, the chief of Karachi Committee was also terminated.
The restructuring of the party cadres followed the Monday incident in which workers of the party roughed up the members of the Coordination Committee and media during a press conference at the 90.
Hussain also issued a code of conduct for the party leaders and workers calling them for staying away from the government contracts, raising donation for the party and dealing in the real estate. He also strictly told the workers that grabber of land, shops and houses would not be tolerated in the party.
The reforms are also said to be the reaction of MQM after the recent elections outcome in Karachi, in which party of cricket legend Imran Khan staged maiden electoral entry and won several seats in the national as well as provincial assemblies.
Even, on the seats MQM defeated the PTI candidates, they stood runner up securing a large number of votes, which was a surprise for the political analysts and MQM leadership as they never launched any election campaign in Karachi and Hyderabad, the traditional stronghold of MQM for past quarter of a century.
