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Rival group blames MQM for murder of Usmani
The Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM-Haqiqi) has blamed the murder of the party's central secretary Athar Usmani on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
- By Amir Mir, Correspondent
- Published: 00:00 December 19, 2006
Lahore: The Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM-Haqiqi) has blamed the murder of the party's central secretary Athar Usmani on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
Usmani was gunned down in Rawalpindi by two bike-riding gunmen on Sunday.
According to Shabbir Khan, the Lahore-based spokesman for the MQM-Haqiqi, Usmani had left Karachi six months ago and was hiding in Rawalpindi after being threatened by Altaf's henchmen who had threatened him over his allegiance to the Haqiqi group.
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During his last interview with Gulf News in Lahore, Usmani had stated that the Altaf group had murdered 98 workers of the Haqiqi group in Karachi alone since 2003. The family members of none of the deceased were allowed to lodge a police complaint.
While making public a letter written to newspaper editors by Afaq Ahmad, the chief of the MQM-Haqiqi who is behind the bars since 2003, Usmani had said his party's chairman has survived two attempts on his life in Karachi's central jail during the last six months.
In the first attempt, his food was poisoned while in the second one, the rivals tried using a poisonous injection to get rid of him, said Usmani, who was released in December 2005 from a Karachi jail after a three-year detention.
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