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MQM wants registration of IDPs and is not saying that no IDPs should come to Sindh or camps should not be setup, unlike Punjab nawazists.
Sattar calls for registration of IDPs
Sattar calls for registration of IDPs
Updated at: 1915 PST, Friday, May 22, 2009
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr. Farooq Sattar has called upon the president, the prime minister, the interior minister and other high ups that the registration of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) entering Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan should be made mandatory.
Speaking to newsmen after attending the joint meeting of the MQM’s Coordination Committee here, Dr. Sattar said that movement of the IDPs should be restricted to relief camps so that Taliban could not sneak into cities in the cover of the affected people.
He demanded that the government should take measures to stop the growing activities of Taliban in Karachi.
He also called for strict action against drug and land mafias for supporting Taliban.
What is this:
Nisar Panwhar, an** MPA belonging to MQM** said that the people of Sindh have sympathies with the affected persons and would also extend assistance to them but would not allow them to settle here. A JSQM leader Asif Baladi, MQM’s Shabir Qaimkhani and others also addressed on the occasion.
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