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	Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) / Mohajir Qaumi Movement [MQM] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Muttahidda [Mothaidda] Quami Movement (MQM), formerly known as the Mohajir Quami Movement, is a political group which represents the Urdu-speaking immigrant urban Mohajir population which migrated from India at the time the creation of Pakistan in 1947).
		The ANP and the MQM subsequently departed from the coalition.
		Apart from fighting between the two MQM factions, the Karachi conflict is also the result of a complex mixture of long-standing tensions between Mohajirs, the ethnic (predominantly rural) Sindhi population, and the provincial government.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/mqm.htm (809 words)

	KARACHI: Four killed during run-up to elections -DAWN - Local; October 9, 2002
		MQM coordination committee leader Nasreen Jalil, speaking at a press conference later, said the victim was returning home after attending a party meeting when he was kidnapped and later his body was found.
		The Muttahida Qaumi Movement alleged that the workers of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal were resorting to high-handed tactics during their election campaign.
		In another violent incident, activists of Muttahida Qaumi Movement were beaten up by the workers of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) at the election office of MQM in F.B Area Block-10, during the night of Sept 12.
	www.dawn.com /2002/10/09/local4.htm (859 words)

	Muttahida Qaumi Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Urdu: متحدہ قومی موومنٹ) generally known as MQM, is a political party in Pakistan founded and currently led by Altaf Hussain.
		MQM boycotted 2001 municipal elections but participated in 2002 national election and secured most of the urban areas seats in Sindh province.
		MQM tried to change it's policy which restrained it to Urdu speaking people recently,opening offices in other provinces including Punjab(formerly MQM was famous for anti punjab attitude)with no sucess.This policy according to various circles is an attempt by musharraf to strengthen his rule and has badly backfired.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muttahida_Qaumi_Movement (1328 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Musharraf Rejects MQM's Resignations; PM meets Sindh Governor, CM
		The President assured his cooperation and support to Muttahida Qaumi Movement and appreciated the role of MQM in strengthening the democratic institutions.
		Muttahida Qaumi Movement [MQM] Quaid, Altaf Hussain Friday phoned President General Pervez Musharraf and informed him about the problems faced by the party in the Sindh province.
		Muttahida sources told this scribe that both President Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz assured the party leadership of resolving all problems, which led to the resignations of the party’s ministers and advisors.
	www.pakistantimes.net /2006/07/29/top17.htm (955 words)

	Muttahida Quami Movement ? MQM (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As of late 2003, led by its founder and leader Mr Altaf Hussain, MQM is the third largest political party of Pakistan and the second largest political party in the southern province of Sindh.
		MQM leader Altaf Hussain was lying low and aiming to become a potential ‘king-maker’ in the possibly hung parliament after the 2002 elections.
		The MQM is apparently amenable to arm-twisting by the administration because of the involvement of its cadres in the worsening law-and-order situation in Karachi and other cities of Sindh, which it seeks to ward off by making deals at the highest levels.
	www.globalsecurity.org.cob-web.org:8888 /military/world/pakistan/mqm.htm (205 words)

	HRW World Report 1999: Pakistan
		In Karachi, an upsurge in fighting between the Immigrants’ National Movement (Mohajir Qaumi Movement, or MQM), a group representing Urdu-speaking migrants who left India in 1947, and the United National Movement (Muttahida Qaumi Movement), a group that split from the MQM, left more than 700 dead, 300 in the months of June and July alone.
		Later that evening nine Muttahida activists, ranging in age from fifteen to twenty-two, were killed and five were injured by unknown gunmen.
		Despite the fact that until September the Muttahida formed part of the governing national coalition headed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (PML), some of the attacks were believed to have been perpetrated either with official participation or at least the acquiescence of various government agencies.
	www.hrw.org /hrw/worldreport99/asia/pakistan.html (1640 words)

	Urdu Times
		Urdu Times(News) The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced here on Sunday that it would stay in Punjab, particularly in southern Punjab and contest next general elections from this area, said MQM Convenor Dr Farooq Sattar during his visit to Multan and other parts of southern Punjab.
		He said there was no truth in these allegations that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was involved in street crimes or adverse activities.
		About the expansion in all parts of the country, he claimed that the MQM has representation in 30 districts of Punjab, four of Balochistan, seven of Sindh, and all districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
	www.urdutimes.com /englishnews/2006/en3/index.php?d=23-10-06 (331 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Muttahida Qaumi Movement Quits government in Sindh
		Imran Farooq warned that the Muttahida would continue to raise its voice against the Kalabagh dam and the handling of the Balochistan issue, which it feels “are against the interest of the masses”.
		He said the Muttahida is a major political party, working for the interest of the masses, but it is being stopped from working for public welfare.
		Earlier Imran Farooq announced that the Muttahida had obtained resignations from Haq Parast federal and provincial ministers and advisers and special assistants as the arrangement arrived at with the federal and Sindh governments could not be implemented, and reservations persisted.
	www.pakistantimes.net /2006/07/29/top4.htm (1152 words)

	The Party Begins
		All the top MQM leaders living in exile in London, including Dr. Imran Farooq, have not even bothered to file their nomination papers.
		However, the MQM boycotted the staggered local bodies elections in 2000-2001, which brought the Jamaat-e-Islami in to run the city government of Pakistan's biggest metropolis.
		The MQM has already started complaining that its election banners, posters and flags are being removed by Jamaat-e-Islami supporters, who enjoy the full support and backing of the administration.
	www.newsline.com.pk /NewsOct2002/cover3.htm (1382 words)

	KARACHI: MQM chief renames student wing: Call for autonomy -DAWN - Local; June 12, 2006
		KARACHI, June 11: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain on Sunday night formally launched the All Pakistan Muttahida Students Organization and was happy to note the tremendous support announced for opening its branches in the academic institutions in the interior of Sindh.
		The MQM chief made this announcement on the 28th anniversary of the founding day of the APMSO which, he recalled, got strength from the blood and sweat of the members who did not even hesitate to lay down their lives for the sake of principles.
		Since his telephonic speech from London was relayed from Karachi to Kashmore, MQM supporters and APMSO members from one station to the other assured him of their unstinted support.
	www.dawn.com.pk /2006/06/12/local4.htm (661 words)

	The News - International
		KARACHI: After reviewing the current political situation that emerged after the resignations of ministers and advisers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement at a meeting here on Friday, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz was confident enough to inform the media that the federal government would settle all issues between coalition partners in Sindh through mutual understanding.
		Muttahida sources confirmed the telephonic contact by President Musharraf and said the conversation was held on the current political situation but no headway was made and the Muttahida would not retract resignations by its ministers and parliamentarians.
		However, the Muttahida sources said, Altaf assured the president that his party would continue its support to Musharraf’s policies on anti-terrorism and the present political set-up.
	www.thenews.com.pk /top_story_detail.asp?Id=2237 (1145 words)

	UNHCR - Pakistan: Information on Mohajir/Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Altaf (MQM-A)
		In the mid-1990s, the MQM-A was heavily involved in the widespread political violence that wracked Pakistan's southern Sindh province, particularly Karachi, the port city that is the country's commercial capital.
		The current MQM-A is the successor to a group called the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) that was founded by Altaf Hussein in 1984 as a student movement to defend the rights of Mohajirs, who by some estimates make up 60 percent of Karachi's population of twelve million.
		Many Pakistani observers alleged that the MQM-H was supported by the government of Pakistan to weaken the main MQM led by Altaf Hussein, which became known as the MQM-A (Jane's 14 Feb 2003).
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=RSDCOI&page=research&id=414fe5aa4 (1265 words)

	MQM Facts
		For example, the Mohajir Qaumi Movement, an urban Sindh-based political party that in the past used violence to further its aims, claimed that its rival the Muttahida Qaumi Movement now a member of the national and provincial governing coalition, used security forces to carry out extrajudicial killings of its members.
		Raising anti-government slogans and carrying portraits of MQM chief Afaq Ahmed as also placards, the women demanded immediate removal of the "terrorists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement", from the strongholds of MQM and vacation of party headquarters, Bait-ul-Hamza.
		Police began detaining members of the MQM (Mohajir Qaumi Movement) in raids on their homes at dawn, reportedly using list of party members that had been compiled in advance.
	mqmfacts.50webs.com /index.html (379 words)

	The FACT > > > > > > Governor's rule in Sindh ruled out
		Muttahida Qaumi Movement's founder Altaf Hussain and Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, who met in London on Thursday at MQM's International Secretariat, have ruled out any possibility of a political change or imposition of governor's rule in Sindh.
		According to a press release issued by the MQM, the chief minister and the MQM chief also agreed to work out a common strategy for the forthcoming local bodies' elections.
		Before meeting Mr Hussain, the press release said, the Sindh chief minister discussed with the MQM Rabita Committee modalities of cooperation between the MQM and the PML in the context of local bodies' elections.
	www.fact.com.pk /archives/apr/feng/inside.htm (313 words)

	HardNews - ‘Punjabis run Pakistan’
		Altaf Hussain, the supremo of Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), speaks to Sanjay Kapoor on the fate of Mohajirs post-Partition, the establishment’s constant suspicion of non-Punjabis and hopes for peace
		In his reckoning, Pakistan, both as an idea and as a nation, has been taken over by the Punjabis, who today control the reins of power and are trying to mould the identity of the common Pakistani in their own image.
		The reason for the formation of the MQM was the fact that the people were feeling alienated from the other ethnic groups.
	www.hardnewsmedia.com /dec2004/pstory5.php (1411 words)

	AsiaMedia :: PAKISTAN: Altaf threatens electronic media with public boycott
		KARACHI: The London-based chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Thursday threatened the country's television channels with a boycott for failing, in his opinion, to project the poor people's cause.
		The Muttahida leader complained that the electronic media at times behaved in a "most irresponsible fashion", an example of which was their repeated reference to the PPP and PML(N) as the two major parties of the country.
		Their dishonesty, he contended, was evident from the fact that Muttahida meetings and rallies were shown sparingly and the camera work was often appalling.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=8851 (574 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		KARACHI, Jan 20, 2003: The three workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, facing re-trial in the Zuhair Akram Nadim murder case, were awarded double capital punishment for two counts by an anti-terrorism court on Monday.
		The three Muttahida men were sentenced to death twice for murder and for spreading terror, and were also fined Rs100,000 each and in case of default the accused would have to undergo an additional two-year term.
		The Muttahida workers had shot dead former MNA Zuhair Akram Nadim on July 4, 1998, in Orangi Town on plot No. 4/18, lane No. 2, Sector 7-E, Orangi Town, where he was inspecting the construction work of his building.
	www31.brinkster.com /induspak/law29.htm (693 words)

	The News - International
		The Muttahida activists were chanting slogans and carrying placards, banners and portraits of Muttahida chief Altaf Hussain.
		Our Multan correspondent adds: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Tuesday staged a demonstration against the MMA and demanded that the MMA legislators, including Maulana Fazalur Rahman be hanged for desecrating holy names and verses written on the copies of the Women Protection Bill tabled in the National Assembly on Monday.
		Dozens of activists led by Muttahida district convener Dr Rao Abu Bakar and Secretary General Muhammad Akram staged a protest demonstration outside the Bahawalpur Press Club to condemn the incident of tearing the copies of the Women Protection Bill by the MNAs of the MMA and other opposition parties.
	www.thenews.com.pk /daily_detail.asp?id=20934 (603 words)

	Sindh crisis needs to be resolved amicably: Altaf Hussain
		Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain on Saturday expressed optimism that the political crisis in Sindh would be resolved amicably.
		In a statement made here MQM chief said: "They way, the Pakistan President has taken notice of the situation created after the resignations by MQM ministers, it seems that the satisfactory and durable solution of the matter would be worked out."
		He termed the decision of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to call a high-level meeting for sorting out the affairs between Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Pakistan government as "a positive step".
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060729/406521.html (146 words)

	Excelsior... Nation
		Altaf Hussain, chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) of Pakistan, has said he would soon visit India to strengthen efforts to resolve the Kashmir issue....
		Deputy Inspector General of CBi, O P Galhotra, who is probing the Rs 64 crore Bofors payoff scandal is among the 12 sleuths of the agency who have been selected for this year’s police medal for meritorious services......
		The MQM chief said the "Punjabi establishment had deliberately created a gulf between the sindhis and urdu speaking people to perpetuate their rule.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /01aug15/national.htm (1927 words)

	Karachi News (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He stated the fact that MQM has done that on Saturday by asking Azizullah Brohi, S.A. Khan, and Sarkaruddin to quit their assembly seats was something that has set new tradition for others to emulate.
		The advisor said that the MQM being a revolutionary party, and a movement, dedicated to the cause of the people, has once again established that commitment to the masses and their welfare remains its cardinal principle.
		Not for a movement did they display any bitterness or unpleasantness by their actions or deeds which shows that the party rank and file remains loyal to the organisation’s principles and its leadership, he concluded.
	www.karachipage.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/Mar_04/031604.html (3273 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Musharraf ally in pullout threat
		The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) says the government must begin talks with tribesmen in the restive province.
		Analysts say a pullout by the MQM would not greatly alter the government's majority in the National Assembly but might affect the legislature in Sindh province.
		He said he was confident the MQM would remain part of the coalition.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4592826.stm (361 words)

	Muttahida to contest polls from Punjab -DAWN - National; October 22, 2006
		ISLAMABAD, Oct 21: Muttahida Qaumi Movement Parliamentary leader in the National Assembly Dr Farooq Sattar said on Saturday party chief Altaf Hussain was not coming to the country due to ‘security risk’ and he would return when the atmosphere would be ‘conducive.’
		He said the Muttahida would contest the next general elections from Punjab also as they had come to the province to stay.
		He said the party had opened its offices in 30 districts of Punjab, four of Balochistan, seven of the NWFP and all of the districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
	www.dawn.com /2006/10/22/nat8.htm (267 words)

	rediff.com US edition: MQM condemns Musharraf's India visit
		The Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the third largest political party in Pakistan has condemned Pakistan President General Musharraf's visit to India on the ground that he is not a democratically elected leader.
		The MQM has the backing of an overwhelming number of the 22 million Mohajirs in Pakistan.
		The strong opposition from the MQM comes when the Pakistani government has been issuing statements claiming the backing of several political leaders for talks with Prime Minister Vajpayee in July.
	www.rediff.com /us/2001/jun/28uk1.htm (256 words)

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