KARACHI: 18TH NOVEMBER 2010
The Founder and Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Mr Altaf Hussain has said that getting rid of the looters and plunderers of national wealth and establishing a system based upon the principles of justice and equity were the only way out to pull the country from the abyss of economic degradation and setting the country on the road of progress and prosperity. He was talking to the volunteers of Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF) in the cities of Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Multan, Sialkot, Gilgit and Quetta simultaneously on the second day of the Eid. He said that the big landlords having large landed estates, chieftains and businessmen always managed to come to power in Pakistan by changing faces and political parties in the past 63 years and in order to secure their personal and family interests they ravaged the wealth of the country and established big estates and properties in foreign countries.
Mr Altaf Hussain said that it was because of the unending rampant corruption and destruction of national wealth that our country has become penniless while some families had accumulated wealth beyond imagination and we were begging before the world with little regard to the national honour and self-respect. “These thieves have impoverished the country to such an extent that if the country is not freed from their clutches they would despoil the country of whatever remained”. Mr Altaf Hussain emphasised that the country needed a revolution of the poor and middle class people and he added that angels would not descend from heaven but people, particularly the younger generation, would have to come forward.
Mr Altaf Hussain stressed upon MQM workers to speed up the work of spreading the message of the party for bringing the revolution. He praised the workers for working day and night for the movement. He prayed Allah to free the country from the clutches of big landlords, businessmen, chieftains, who had despoiled national wealth and to establish a just rule of the honest and duteous people from 98 per cent poor and middle class segment. He also prayed for freeing the country from terrorism, corruption, lawlessness, corruption, nepotism, social evils and injustices and for making the struggle of MQM successful for establishing a better society in the country.
In the end Mr Altaf Hussain greeted MQM workers and KKF volunteers a Happy Eid and said that the collection of hides of sacrificial animals in large numbers in Karachi and the whole of Sindh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir, Baluchistan, KP augurs well for the party and was an indicator of the trust which the people had in MQM. He commended the efforts of MQM workers and KKF volunteers in collecting the hides.