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Khalid Maqbool writes letter to PM for security of MQM-P key leaders

Khalid Maqbool writes letter to PM for security of MQM-P key leaders
December 28, 2018
ISLAMABAD (92 News) – Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Friday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan for providing security to the key party leaders. In a letter, in the wake of recent attack over Milad’s gathering and murder of former lawmaker Ali Raza Abidi in Karachi, he demanded to provide foolproof security to the MQM-P leaders. Khalid Maqbool informed the prime minister that their party leaders including elected members of assemblies, local bodies were receiving death threats. The minister said that attack over MQM-P’s Milad gathering in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and assassination of Ali Raza Abidi aimed to disturb city’s law, order, adding that party leaders are receiving dire consequences. The federal minister said despite security threats, party leaders have not been given security, “Security institutions should be ordered to provide foolproof security to MQM-P leaders,” he continued. Earlier on Tuesday, former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MNA Ali Raza Abidi was gunned down late night on December 25 outside his residence in DHA area of Karachi.