Senator Faisal Subzwari from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) revealed that someone had intimidated his party into rejoining the cabinet of then-Prime Minister Imran Khan back in March 2020.
Former MQM worker, Subzwari, claimed that law enforcement officials had arrested three generations of his family and committed extrajudicial killings in his home.
He exposed that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) cabinet compelled them to take a U-turn and rejoin despite the party’s reservations and unfulfilled promises.
According to Subzwari, negotiations had been ongoing between the MQM-P and the PTI after Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui resigned from Khan’s cabinet in December 2019.
However, someone abruptly ordered the MQM-P to rejoin the cabinet in March of the following year.
Subzwari refrained from disclosing the directive-givers who had given them the order when the party informed that they could not rejoin without meeting their demands.
According to Subzwari
According to him, seven MQM-P workers detained and subjected to torture when the party refused to comply with the order to rejoin Khan’s cabinet.
This forced the party to comply and rejoin the cabinet.
He also mentioned that he had told Khan in front of many others that he was only sitting with him out of compulsion.
Subzwari expressed his opinion that no political work should be falsely accused and claimed that the PTI was the only political party enjoying this leverage at present.
Regarding Shehbaz Gill’s attempt to instigate mutiny in the army on a television channel, the federal minister commented that Gill should be grateful he was from Faisalabad and not Karachi.
The senator remembered that authorities filed 27 terrorism cases against MQM leaders in a single day after they listened to an inflammatory speech.
He alleged that many of the individuals accused in those cases were not even present in Pakistan at the time of the incident.
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