MQM puts PPP into a tight spot

Sattar, Ghauri send resignation to President, PM

PML-N accepts Altaf’s challenge of public debate

Staff Reporter/ Agencies

KARACHI: The PPP-government came under further pressure Tuesday with its second-largest partner, Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Farooq Sattar and Babar Khan Ghauri dispatched their resignations to President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani. Muttahida Qaumi Movement said Monday that it was withdrawing its two ministers from the federal cabinet in a move that could threaten the narrow parliamentary majority of President Zardari’s Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

Talking to media, Sattar said that they had resigned because the government failed in solving the problems faced by the people of Pakistan. He said that the government did not consult his party on policy decisions.
The statement issued here from MQM Center ‘Nine-Zero’, said the party’s reservations still exist adding government neither took MQM into confidence nor did has any consultations with it.

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