Mqm Quaid Altaf Hussain advises Zardari to reverse course or face disaster

KARACHI: London based MQM Supremo Altaf Hussain has sent an urgent SYS (Save Your Soul) message to the increasingly beleaguered President Asif Ali Zardari.

extolling him to immediately cease his hostile antics pertaining to the judiciary and the media, it was reliably learnt. The message according to sources was delivered to the President late in the evening during his Karachi stopover. Presidential aides refused to confirm the president’s precise travel plans but it was learnt that the president is making a dash to Dubai to deal with “certain urgent matters”, as put by a confidante. The all important message comes at the heels of some critical meetings held between President Zardari, Prime Minister Gillani, CJCS Gen Tariq Majeed and the COAS, Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani during the past 24 hours.

Highly informed sources told The Current Affairs.com that a greatly perturbed Altaf Hussain, whose MQM is PPP’s key ruling ally in Sindh and at the Centre, has conveyed to the president that unless he immediately puts a stop to the increasingly belligerent attitude, both his own and that of his other party leaders, towards apex judiciary and the media, he could well face the ultimate unsavoury choice of losing it all. It was told that the MQM has let it be known to the president that in the event of him not desisting from his present confrontational course of action and attempting to activate the ‘Sindh card factor’, then the presidential camp could well find itself short of a few political allies. In a highly significant development, the MQM message has reportedly focussed on severe consequences for the president’s own future and not necessarily of the party or the government of prime minister Gillani. According to informed sources, senior MQM leadership appears convinced that the president and his close coterie of advisors have needlessly taken the president down a closed dark political ally and in the process have alienated the Khakis, judiciary and the media and all that at a critical juncture where he personally suffers a severe credibility deficit while the ruling PPP government has little to show in terms of policy clarity or visible good governance. Whether the president heeds this arguably timely and pragmatic advice remains to be seen.

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