[DAWN] KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM) has appealed to the 'establishment' to forgo what it called the bitter past and grant it clemency like the general amnesty offered to the 'angry Baloch' people.
"Just as clemency is being announced for the estranged Baloch people, the establishment should also heal the wounds of Mohajirs by forgetting past bitterness," the MQM coordination committee said in a statement issued on Sunday.
Referring to reports about certain workers who had gone to India over 20 years ago and who allegedly confessed to having been trained there, the MQM said that any worker who had gone to the neighbouring country for saving his life after the launching of the June 19, 1992, army operation "did so without informing the party".
"The MQM has nothing to do with the training of the people who had gone to India."
It said that the MQM was a patriotic political party and it would continue to be unconditionally loyal to Pakistain.