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MQM’s decision to support PTI

What options did the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have after the 2018 general elections? This question has many answers. One of the many answers to this question could be that…

MQM(P)-PSP squabble

The recriminations that followed last week's press conference by PSP chief Mustafa Kamal in the presence of MQM-Pakistan leader Farooq Sattar continue with some outsiders jumping in to the fray on the…

MQM(P)-PSP squabble

The recriminations that followed last week's press conference by PSP chief Mustafa Kamal in the presence of MQM-Pakistan leader Farooq Sattar continue with some outsiders jumping in to the fray on the…

The MQM On A Ventilator

The MQM on a ventilator

The phenomenon that was born out of the death of a female student, Bushra Zaidi, in the 1980s is today breathing its last on a ventilator – with most onlookers…

Whither MQM?

Following the death of literary giant, Dr Samuel Johnson, his critics went on an over-drive, to berate the man and to degrade his achievements. Dr Boswell, his longtime friend, apprentice…

The MQM’s coup de grace

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Pakistan) staged a coup de grace – to apparently pre-empt retribution – by disowning its cult leader’s oft-repeated fits of treacherous diatribe against the state. In…

A post-Altaf MQM?

It all started on August 22 with Bhai’s provocative and controversial speech. In a fit of rage, Bhai crossed all moral and legal boundaries by using foul language against the…

MQM reads the stars…correctly

Islamabad diary Who in the fullest possession of his senses would have thought this possible, that the MQM, through its Rabita Committee – the nearest thing it has to a…

A Turning Point For MQM

A turning point for MQM

In the speech he delivered to his party workers on Monday, MQM supremo Altaf Hussain surpassed his own record of making the most incendiary political speeches. He has been saying…

MQM Or PSP?

MQM or PSP?

Long before revelations emerging from the Panama Papers caused a furore over offshore assets allegedly held by the prime minister’s family and other important political and business figures, the political…