KARACHI: Chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement Altaf Hussain has paid rich tributes to Aqil Barelvi for his poetic creations highlighting state atrocities perpetrated in the June 1992 operation against the party. He said this at a launching ceremony of "Harf-e-Mazahmat", the anthology of Aqil Barelvi’s poetry, during his telephonic address from London here on Wednesday. Aqil Barelvi writes quatrain for an Urdu daily and the book is a collection of his quatrain from 1992 to 2004. He said that Aqil Barelvi felt the pain of bloodshed of innocent people during the June 1992 army operation against the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and he expressed this pain through his poetic creations without any fear. Altaf Hussain said that no one could exclude Aqil Barelvi’s name from the struggle of the party. He directed the Muttahida leaders to take measures for printing the whole poetry collection of Aqil Barelvi. He also announced a Rs25,000 cash reward for Rasheed Jamal for collecting quatrain of Aqil Brelvi and publishing it in a form of book. The book launching programme was well-attended by a number of literary people. Member, Muttahida Coordination Committee, Nasreen Jalil, poetess Gulnar Afreen, Khwaja Rafiq Anjum, Manzar Ayubi, Mohsin Bhopali, Ajmal Dehalvi and the poet himself spoke at the event.