KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) PIB chapter’s beleaguered leader, Farooq Sattar on Monday, reached out to the party’s Bahadurabad group for an alliance.
Mr Sattar also claimed that he was willing to withdraw his demand to dissolve the MQM’s rabita committee on the grounds that the Bahadurabad faction choose between either him or Amir Khan.
“”I am ready to accept the entire Rabita Committee but my only condition is that Bahadurabad choose between me and Amir Khan,” Sattar claimed while addressing a press conference in Karachi.
He then went on to say that either he would remain a part of the MQM or Amir Khan would.
In a joint press conference with Bahadurabad faction leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui last month, Farooq Sattar had claimed that the Bahadurabad office was the collective home of all MQM party workers despite the differences that plagued the party.
The dispute within the MQM pertains to the nomination of members for Senate elections, which led to the MQM splitting into different factions.
Sattar was then deposed as party head by the Rabita committee on February 11.
Following his removal, Sattar held an intra-party poll on the 26th of March that led to him being selected as the MQM-PIB chapter’s head.
A five-member bench of the ECP, headed by Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan, on March 26 had ruled that Sattar could no longer serve as the convener of MQM-P.
The bench also dismissed Sattar’s petition challenging the jurisdiction of ECP in the case and nullified the intra-party elections of MQM, in which Sattar was elected as the party chief.
However, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday dismissed the ECP’s verdict after Sattar had challenged the order in the IHC.
