The announcement was made by MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar who said the party reached the decision after consultation with the coordination committee and all office-bearers of the Khidmat-i-Khalq Foundation (KKF). Last year, he said, the law-enforcement agencies "targeted" party workers and "snatched truckloads of hides" donated to the KKF and then handed them over to other charity organisations. The law-enforcement agencies did not allow KKF volunteers to collect hides and they "illegally seized hundreds of truckloads of hides" in Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur and other parts of Sindh, he added. This gap will allow us to reorganise the KKF and MQM," he said. Last month, Pakistan charged London-based MQM leader Altaf Hussain with treason for an inflammatory speech slamming Islamabad.

Source: India Today September 11, 2016 15:11 UTC