Prime Minister Imran Khan has once again earned the ally MQM’s ‘complete support’ in order to thwart the Opposition’s no-confidence motion against him.
The Prime Minister’s Office said in a tweet sent after Imran Khan’s meeting with MQM leaders in Karachi on Wednesday that the prime minister discussed the current political situation and won the MQM’s “complete support.”
The prime minister, on the other hand, was forced to listen to a long list of grievances from MQM leaders, including missing people and closed party offices.
The meeting, which took place in the MQM’s headquarters in Karachi’s Bahadurabad neighborhood, did not stay long, and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif left to visit Governor’s House.
Imran Khan’s meeting with MQM leaders had gotten off to a rocky start when one of the senior Muttahida leaders was denied entry and another ally party declined to meet him.
MQM leader Khawaja Izharul Hassan was enraged when he was denied access to a meeting between party officials and the prime minister, prompting him to storm out of the Muttahida office.
Imran Khan visited the MQM’s Bahadurabad headquarters and spoke with Muttahida leaders in an attempt to rally support among government allies in the face of the opposition’s no-trust motion. The premier, on the other hand, has been dealt a first-round knockout punch by his ally GDA, whose leader has refused to meet with him.
The prime minister was accompanied to the meeting with MQM leaders by federal ministers Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Ali Zaidi, and Sindh Governor Imran Ismail.
Imran Khan, who is still holding his ground and hoping to stave off the opposition’s onslaught, appeared to be losing the backing of some of his allies when GDA Chairman Pir Sadruddin Shah refused to meet with him at Sindh Governor House.
The GDA’s leadership believes that politicians should visit Kingari House in order to form governments, but the Pir does not go to any formal structure for this reason.
According to sources, the Sindh government has canceled the Ahsas Kafalat celebration that was planned to take place at the Governor House today due to PM Khan’s presence in the city.
The prime minister’s visit, they added, would be brief. He will pay a visit to the MQM’s Bahaduabad centre. He’ll meet with members of the PTI in the National Assembly.
PM Khan was reportedly unable to meet with Grand Democratic Alliance leader Pir Sadruddin Shah, who is currently in Khair Pur due to a personal engagement, according to sources.
They claimed that Pir Saddruddin’s engagements had already been planned before the Prime Minister’s visit.
MQM’s Hyderabad office de-sealed
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) zonal office in Hyderabad was de-sealed on Wednesday after five-and-a-half years.
The office was closed in August 2016, according to MQM Hyderabad Zonal Incharge Zafar Siddiqui, but it was reopened after the district administration granted permission.
The de-sealing of the MQM’s Hyderabad headquarters has come as a huge relief to the party, especially given the current political climate, in which the PTI government in the centre is struggling to gain allies’ support.
