MQM announces women public meeting in Karachi
The women public meeting at Bagh-e-Jinnah will break all past records. Altaf Hussain

 Karachi: 9^th February 2012
Founder and Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement Mr. Altaf Hussain has announced a grand women public meeting in Karachi on 19^th February in Bag-I-Jinnah in Karachi. He has said that the women public meeting will break all past records and make a new history in the politics of the country.

He made this announcement. Mr Hussain said that women have played a brave role in the struggle of the MQM since 1978. When the difficult times came during struggle of the movement spanning over a period of 35 years and mere affiliation with the MQM was made a grave crime, the women came forward and uplifted the flag of the MQM. They opened Nine Zero and worked courageously.

They were trampled upon by the horses, subjected to ill-treatment in the jails but they did not lose hope and carried the mission and objective of the movement forward. Mr Hussain paid glowing tributes to the women for their relentless struggle and said that they would once again make a history by organizing a grand public meeting in Bagh-i-Jinnah on the 19^th February. He appealed to the women belonging to different spheres of life and social spectrum to rise above the distinctions of religion and nationalities in order to demonstrate that they were one.

Mr Hussain asked the Women Wing of the MQM and female students of the APMSO to start preparations for the public meeting in full gear. He also directed all the zones, sectors and office-bearers of provincial committees to get ready for the women public meeting.

US JOURNALISTS VISIT NINE ZERO

KARACHI: 9^TH FEBRUARY 2012

A thirteen member delegation of the US journalists visited the Nine Zero. The visit was organized by International Centre for Journalists (IVFJ). The delegation was received and welcomed at Nine Zero by member of the co-ordination committee and in-charge of the Central Information Committee Mr Wasay Jalil. The delegation was being headed by Mr Aamir Jahangir of ICFJ.

The delegation held talks with members of the co-ordination committee Mr Mustafa Kamal, Mrs Nasrin Jalil, Mr Raza Haroon, Dr Sagheer Ahmed, Mr Gulfaraz Khan Khattak, Mr Wasay Jalil and member of the Central Executive Council Mr Umer Khan Ali Sherzai.

The meeting lasted in a cordial environment for over two hours during which different issues relating to media in Pakistan and the US were discussed in detail. The need for solving the problems being faced by the journalists and an independent media was greatly stressed in the meeting.

The purpose of the visit by the delegation was to acquire information about the political struggle of the MQM, the role of the MQM in the politics of Pakistan and the media centre of the MQM. The co-ordination committee apprised the delegation about the fact that the MQM was the only political party in the country that has emerged from the poor and middle class segment of the society. The committee also informed them about the philosophy of Mr Altaf Hussain, the reasons behind the coming into being of the MQM, its practical struggle and historic struggle.

The delegation visited different sections of the Khursheed Begum Secretariat and the media centre. They also visited the monument built in memory of the martyrs of the MQM. Members of the delegation were presented “Pictorial Biography of Altaf Hussain” at the time of leaving.

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