KARACHI, April 27: Chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Altaf Hussain has announced that his party will field its candidates throughout the country in the upcoming general elections.

Addressing telephonically the MQM women wing’s general workers convention held at Lal Qila in Azizabad on Thursday, he said that his party’s philosophy and thinking was now understood in every province of the country, besides Azad Kashmir.

Mr Hussain said that since his party opposed the oppressive feudal system, conspiracies were being hatched against it right from its inception.

Referring to the April 11 Nishtar Park tragedy, Mr Hussain said that some parties were still trying to implicate MQM in it without having any proof.

Mr Hussain also introduced to the audience Ms Nadia Gabol, niece of a PPP leader, Nabeel Gabol, and welcomed her in the fold of the MQM. Ms Nadia briefly addressed the crowd in English, Urdu and Balochi languages.

The MQM chief claimed that his party’s philosophy was attracting more and more people, and with each passing day, their numbers in Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, NWFP and Azad Kashmir were increasing significantly.

He recalled the difficulties his party had gone through while advocating the just cause and in the process losing hundreds of comrades extra-judicially killed after being subjected to torture. He said that thousands of the victims had faced the difficult times and dozens of those held were still missing.

Mr Hussain praised the role of women in the MQM struggle, and especially mentioned the difficult times they had gone through during the military operation carried out against the party.

On the occasion, the women workers told their leader that they would not be misled certain parties’ propaganda aimed at pushing the country into another cycle of sectarian bloodbath. They also assured Mr Hussain that all conspiracies in this regard would be frustrated.