The MQM leadership decided to challenge in courts the imposition of what it called the “British-era system of bureaucracy-controlled governance” instead of democratic rule by people’s representatives, Sindh’s Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and other leaders of his party said the decision conformed to aspirations of the people.

MQM leaders Farooq Sattar and Anis Kaimkhani said at a press conference that the Rabita Committee of their party at a meeting held simultaneously in London and Karachi had decided to exercise its ‘legal and constitutional’ right to go to courts and the people against the PPP move which breach Article 140-A of the Constitution.

Mr Qaimkhani said that there was a conspiracy to create division in the rural and urban Sindh but declared that the MQM would defeat all such attempts by forging unity in the province. He said that the MQM was being punished for coming out of the government.