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The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has decided to revoke the basic membership of party’s senior leader Farooq Sattar, reports Express News.
The decision was made at an emergency meeting chaired by convener MQM-P and federal minister Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui at the party’s headquarters in Bahadurabad, Karachi.
The report quoted sources as saying the Rabita (coordination) committee has decided to revoke Sattar’s membership, saying leaders of the party will not maintain any sort of contacts with him.
In September, the veteran politician resigned from the Rabita Committee, saying he could no longer perform duties in the capacity.
Sattar had also confirmed earlier he was weighing up an offer to join the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Sattar lost the NA-247 seat to PTI candidate Dr Arif Alvi during the July 25 polls.
Earlier this month, Sattar and Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar were indicted in a decades-old Loudspeaker Act violation case.
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Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid has predicted a major arrest from Sindh, as part of the government’s ongoing campaign against corruption.
“I can predict an end to corrupt politicians this year,” Rashid said while addressing a news conference in Lahore. “I can see new faces emerge in the political arena.
“The AML chief said, “A lot of money is going to be recovered from the faloda seller,” and added that the bank accounts of the faloda seller will reveal who have been given benefits from those.
On Tuesday, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said a plan was being hatched to put him behind bars. “These days, there are rumours that I will be arrested but that won’t be something new for me as I have seen many barracks in the past.”
On November 1, the veteran politician said that he may be put behind bars, but those doing so will first have to prove that he had deposited money in fake bank accounts.
“If I transferred any money into the accounts of a faloda seller or a rickshaw driver, then I can do that,” the former president said, and added, “but that needs to be proved.”
In September, the top court ordered formation of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe alleged money laundering of at least Rs35 billion through fake bank accounts.
Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur, Omni Group’s Anwar Majeed, former Pakistan Stock Exchange chairman Hussain Lawai and Summit Bank Senior Vice-President Taha Raza are among those being investigated by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for alleged money laundering of over Rs35 billion through fake accounts.
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The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday questioned Federal Minister for Law Farogh Naseem and Information Technology and Telecommunication (IT) Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui in a money laundering case.
Naseem is accused of transferring Rs268,000 in an account of Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF), the MQM’s charity wing. Moreover, the party is accused of carrying out money laundering using foundation’s accounts.
On Sunday, FIA’s counter-terrorism wing had sent notices to hundreds of people working in the party and instructed them to get in touch with the agency’s Islamabad office.
The MQM-P workers are accused of depositing large sums of money of over Rs1 billion in the foundation’s accounts.
It is pertinent to mention that a case had been registered against MQM’s founder and KKF in October 2016 but was transferred to the FIA later.