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MQM quitting Sharifs coalition
KARACHI. June 27: A Pakistani ethnic party said today it was quitting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharifs coalition and deputies were resigning their seats to protest at an army-led crime crackdown, reports Reuter.
Several deputies of the Mohajlr National Movement (MQM) said authorities were using the 27-day-old crackdown in the troubled Sind province to crush their party based in the provincial capital Karachi and some other urban centres.
The MQM central body has agreed on the resignations of
all of 15 deputies in the National Assembly (Lower House of Parliament) and 28 deputies in the Sind Provincial Assembly, a party leader said.
The resignations, over an army sweep against MQM strongholds in Karachi since June 19, were announced hours after Sharif left for a two-day official visit .to the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan.
Political sources said the loss of MQM seats would not pose an immediate danger to Sharifs 20-month-old government, which will still have a majority in the National Assembly with the backing of other groups and independents.
But they said the Sind Provincial government of Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Shah could fall because the MQM was the largest group in his coalition.
A group of MQM dissidents has sought to win over MQM deputies and at least two federal and two provincial deputies of the party have said
they will not resign their nciils.
Political sources said the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, the largest single group in the Sind Assembly: could try to form the next provincial government.
But Bhutto demands fresh elections in the whole country, saying the last elections held in October 1990 were rigged by authorities to defeat her.
Several MQM deputies told reporters that they had sent copies of their resignations to President Ghulam Ishaq Khan. Sharif, their legislatures and election authorities.
Karachi Mayor Farooq Sattar, who Is also a National Assembly member, said all MQM deputies would resign under the party decision taken on Friday.
Most MQM activists have gone into hiding after the army sweep on their strongholds that followed gunfights between them and the dissidents In which 10 people were killed and a curfew Imposed on two-thlrds of Karachi.
MQM leader Altaf Hussain
has been in London for several months for medical treatment.
Authorities say they have-found more than 20 torture chambers which MQM operated to punish political opponents. The MQM denies the charge and accuses the authorities of making pretexts to crush the party.
"The resignations are against the government’s unconstitutional and undemocratic altitude which has been adopted to crush the MQM," the party's Sind Provincial Housing Minister Ishratul Ebad Khan said.
Kanwar Naveed Jameel. an MQM deputy of the National Assembly from the Sind town of Hyderabad, said he was resigning as the government had started crushing the MQM and its ministers and legislators had been threatened with kidnappings and deaths after their houses were set on fire.
The resignations are In protest at threats of kidnappings and deaths." Mohammad Aslam, another National Assembly member, told reporters.