LONDON/DUBAI: Former Mayor of Karachi and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s senior leader Syed Mustafa Kamal and former Deputy Convener of the Co-ordination Committee of the MQM Anis Qaimkhani have developed serious differences with the party and both have fled Karachi until the party leaders forgives them.
It can be exclusively revealed that former Karachi Mayor Mustafa Kamal Karachi in tears after being humiliated by the party leader as well as by the workers and has been living between Dubai and America – refusing requests to return to Karachi.
Pakistan’s major English newspaper The News reported on Tuesday that Kamal now works for Malik Riaz in Dubai but that’s only a cover and the actual story is something else.
Pakistani TV Geo’s International Edition had reported in UK on Monday that Babar Ghauri has denied in Washington that Kamal has differences with the party but the actual story is revealed here today for the first time.
“Some incidents has disheartened Mustafa Kamal to the point that he is staying away from Karachi and not involved in the party anymore. He is refusing to be in touch with the party and feels that he has been very unfairly treated. He fails to understand why he has been degraded openly within the party by the leadership,” a source from Nine Zero, pleading complete anonymity, confided.
He said that when Kamal refused to return to Karachi over the direction of the party leader Altaf Hussain, he was asked to tender his resignation from the Senate seat.
“Kamal has handed over his resignation to the party but that’s not being made public at this stage. The ultimate aim is to get the new recruit and former Pervez Musharraf loyalist Barrister Saif made a senator at Kamal’s seat but due to the on-going not-so-cordial situation with the PPP, the MQM will wait till it’s sure of getting Saif in the Senate safely,” said the source, taking the lid off from the intriguing internal details.
Kamal was in London in June this year to attend party meetings but left Pakistan soon after going back to Karachi and has been rarely seen in public, Ubaid Mughal, The News Tribe’s UK correspondent said.
“Mustafa Kamal has recently spent time at his in-laws in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. He took his wife for medical check-up to America but has been mostly holed up in Dubai or California.”
It has been learnt that the MQM approached Kamal with an offer to return to Pakistan to be part of the local bodies election campaign but the former Karachi Mayor is defiant to such an extent that he is no more answering telephone calls or replying emails of his party and friends. Kamal has not answered any calls or emails in over two months and he is no more answering calls of his partymen – his former colleagues.
Kamal started his political career with the MQM when a bloody military operation against the party was at its peak and Kamal worked as an operator at an under-siege Nine Zero in conditions that were far from ideal. His dedication caught the attention of Altaf Hussain and since then there has been no looking back for the smooth-talking politician.say Jalil, Haider Abbas and Mr Siddiqui.
“Anis Qaimkhani has also left Karachi and lives in another country these days, it’s not Dubai,” said the source. During military operation against the MQM, Anis Qaimkhani suffered torture and went to jail but refused to compromise, unlike many leaders who cut deals with the army against their own comrades. Those who know Qaimkhani within the party are aware that he has worked round the clock at the Nine Zero almost all his life.
Former Shipping Minister Babr Ghauri was asked about Mustafa Kamal’s differences with the party, he said there were no differences but said that Kamal had right to “leave” MQM if he wishes so.
“People have right to join and leave parties. If someone gets busy and leaves party that’s fine. People join parties, do their job and leave when they want to,” Ghauri told GEO TV’s International Edition.
Tail-end
Pakistan’s Senate secretariat has confirmed that Mustafa Kamal has tendered his resignation from the seat on personal basis.
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