Lawmaker of Farooq Sattar-led MQM joins Mustafa Kamal-led PSP

Naimat Khan

KARACHI: Pakistan Sarzameen Party was successful in getting loyalty of another MQM Lawmaker changed here on Monday.

A member Sindh Assembly from Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Nadeem Razi, who is though least known to public and least important, joined the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) during a news conference with PSP chief Mustafa Kamal.

Razi was elected as member of the Sindh Assembly from Karachi’s PS-121 constituency in general elections in May 2013.

Addressing a press conference alongside PSP leaders Raza Haroon and Anis Kaimkhani, PSP Chairman Mustafa Kamal urged other political leaders to join the PSP.

He claimed scores of MQM workers are joining the new political party every day.

He wondered how Karachi’s population stood at 14.9 million according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) data on the population and said the city’s population was not lower than 20.5 million.

Commenting on the founder of the MQM Altaf Hussain, Kamal said Hussain himself closed his chapter in Pakistani politics.

Slamming Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, he said it was weird that Abbasi still called Nawaz Sharif his prime minister. The smear campaign was underway to discredit institutions, he added.

Responding to the defection, Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan Chief Dr Farooq Sattar said his party should not be deemed as sweet dish and it will show its muscles in general polls of 2018.

“The people who claim to grab out wickets should told that no matter if they bowled our wickets we will stand 1000 more such wickets,” he said, adding that PSP is giving packages to the defectors but