MQM COORDINATION COMMITTEE, TANZEEMI COMMITTEE AND SEVERAL OTHER COMMITTEES DISSOLVED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT
A SIX-MEMBER ADHOC COMMITTEE FORMED TO RUN PARTY AFFAIRS

Karachi – 14 August 2003
To rid the MQM of politically motivated interests and to re-establish the MQM as an ideological movement, several decisions have been reached.  Amongst these is the decision to dissolve with immediate effect the Coordination Committee, Tanzeemi Committee and several other committees and a Six-Member Adhoc committee has been announced.  MQM Convenor Dr. Imran Farooq announced this over the telephone from London on Thursday and Mr Altaf Hussain has ratified this decision.  In the first phase the MQM Coordination Committee, Caretaker Political Wing, Caretaker Tanzeemi Committee, Karachi Tanzeemi Committee and MQM International Secretariat Tanzeemi Committee and Caretaker Committee have been dissolved with immediate effect and  a Six-Member Adhoc Committee has been announced to run the affairs of the party, which comprises of Anwar Alam, Abu Bakar Siddiqui, Zahid Qureshi, Hassam Uddin Jalali, Ismael Qureshi and Ms Mumtaz Anwar.