LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Husain has said that he is against Martial Law and that he will oppose it in case it is imposed.

In an exclusive interview to senior Journalist Sohail Waraich in London, Altaf Hussain said selective accountability messed things up in Pakistan and that it would be wrong to target only President Zardari.

He called for formation of a government jointly by honest people and professionals, adding that people should rise for bringing about a revolution.

The MQM Chief’s recently issued a controversial statement in which he called upon ‘patriotic generals’ of Army to act against ‘corrupt politicians’ created a stir across the country, leading to fiery debates among politicians, analysts and representatives of civil society.

Altaf Husain, who has been in self-imposed exile in London for about the past 18 years, said he had been struggling for the cause of democracy for the past 32 years and that he had never supported a military rule or any undemocratic process.

He said he had always criticized any direct or indirect intervention/participation of the Army and ISI in the politics of the country.

“Nowhere during my entire speech had I mentioned imposition of Martial Law,” Altaf Hussain clarified, adding, he had only asked ‘patriotic generals’ to change the fate of the country by undertaking ‘Martial Law-like’ steps.

He said he would never retract from what he said and that he is not a coward.

MQM, he said, is a democratic party, ‘so how could it ever invite Martial Law in the country?’ MQM will always oppose imposition of Martial Law, he added.

Altaf Hussain noted that imposition of Martial Law had only led things from bad to worse. It was Martial Law regime that led to the dismemberment of the country and later a similar set up put Balochistan on the path of deterioration.
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Zardari is due to speak at a rally in the city of Birmingham after talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday in which they agreed to do more together to fight Islamist militancy and brushed aside a diplomatic spat.

“Storms will come and storms will go and Pakistan and Britain will stand together,” Zardari said after meeting Cameron, who had angered Pakistanis with comments last week that Pakistan must not “look both ways” when dealing with militants.

Cameron’s comments during a visit to Pakistan’s arch-rival India prompted the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency to say its chief was cancelling a trip to Britain in protest, raising fears of a reduction in counter-terrorism cooperation.

Officials from both countries have played down those fears, with Cameron speaking on Friday of an “unbreakable relationship between Britain and Pakistan based on our mutual interests.”

It is a measure of how important that relationship is that Zardari should choose to address a rally in Britain — a rare event for a visiting head of state and a sign of the significance of the British Pakistani community.

Britain has more than one million people of Pakistani origin, the majority of them from what was once the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir which lies at the heart of tensions between Pakistan and India.

“KASHMIR ESCALATOR”

Security analysts say that the combination of poverty, unemployment, racism and political grievances among some members of the community provide a fertile breeding ground for the few who seek to join Islamist militant groups based in Pakistan.

Dubbed the “Kashmir escalator,” both Britain and Pakistan have tried to tackle it through sharing intelligence.

It was still unclear whether Zardari had managed to patch up the diplomatic row with Britain to prevent any damage to intelligence sharing.

With at least 1,600 people killed by floods in Pakistan, more than 100 Pakistanis protested on Saturday outside the international convention centre where Zardari was due to speak, many urging him to return to his disaster-stricken country.

Among competing protests by groups from various political organisations, one man shouted over a megaphone for an independent Kashmir, while others urged the president to go home, chanting “Go Zardari, go!”

One banner read “Zardari, part-time president!” and another “Thousands dying; president holidaying!”

The Birmingham event had raised expectations that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of the president and the late Benazir Bhutto, would make his first major political speech there after graduating in June from Oxford University.

But in an apparent attempt to appease anger at home over the floods, Bilawal Bhutto on Thursday cancelled plans to attend and said he would instead stay in London to collect donations for flood victims.

Man hurled shoes towards President Zardari: Eyewitness

Updated at: 2132 PST,  Saturday, August 07, 2010  BIRMINGHAM: A man threw two shoes towards President Asif Ali Zardari when the latter was delivering a speech at Pakistan People’s Party’s convention here on Saturday, an eyewitness said.However, the shoes failed to reach the stage, sources said. President Zardari was addressing a gathering of PPP workers at a convention here when a man – apparently a PPP worker – stood up and threw something in direction of the President as he (the man) criticized the latter for the UK trip, the sources said. An eyewitness who was present at the convention said ‘the man threw two shoes one after another towards the President when he was giving speech.’ Security personnel present there sprung to action and took the man into custody and took him outside, the eyewitness added. This led the President to stop his address and immediately leave the place in a security cordon in his car waiting for him outside. However, Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar rubbished the above report, saying there is no substance in it as he was himself present at the convention and no such incident took place during the President’s speech. “I was sitting in the front row and I can confidently say that nobody threw anything,” Farhatullah Babar said while talking to Geo News. On the other hand, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira confirming the incident said that ‘highlighting a wrong act of a person would not be a right thing to do’ and added that the incident will be investigated. President Zardari is presently in UK on a trip which was widely criticized due to his leaving the country at a time when people in Pakistan are facing unprecedented floods that has killed over 1000 people and displaced millions.

BIRMINGHAM: A man threw two shoes towards President Asif Ali Zardari when the latter was delivering a speech at Pakistan People’s Party’s convention here on Saturday, an eyewitness said.

However, the shoes failed to reach the stage, sources said.

President Zardari was addressing a gathering of PPP workers at a convention here when a man – apparently a PPP worker – stood up and threw something in direction of the President as he (the man) criticized the latter for the UK trip, the sources said.

An eyewitness who was present at the convention said ‘the man threw two shoes one after another towards the President when he was giving speech.’ Security personnel present there sprung to action and took the man into custody and took him outside, the eyewitness added.

This led the President to stop his address and immediately leave the place in a security cordon in his car waiting for him outside.

However, Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar rubbished the above report, saying there is no substance in it as he was himself present at the convention and no such incident took place during the President’s speech.

“I was sitting in the front row and I can confidently say that nobody threw anything,” Farhatullah Babar said while talking to Geo News.

On the other hand, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira confirming the incident said that ‘highlighting a wrong act of a person would not be a right thing to do’ and added that the incident will be investigated.

President Zardari is presently in UK on a trip which was widely criticized due to his leaving the country at a time when people in Pakistan are facing unprecedented floods that has killed over 1000 people and displaced millions.

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