...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...
, its chief Altaf Hussain and Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
as an "unacceptable violation of party discipline", but announced no action against him.
"The PPP disowned the accusations made at a presser by former provincial senior minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza in Bloody Karachi on Sunday," presidential front man Farhatullah Khan Babar told news hounds after a meeting of Sindh PPP leaders, presided over by President
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
at the Presidency.
"The PPP termed it an unacceptable violation of the party discipline and contrary to the well thought-out policy of reconciliation and taking of all political forces on board as envisaged by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto," Mr Babar said. He said the meeting had reiterated its resolve to continue the policy of reconciliation to collectively face the myriad challenges facing the country.