KARACHI, May 21: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain on Tuesday dissolved a key party wing, the ‘Karachi Tanzeemi (organising) Committee’, in view of numerous complaints against it.

The announcement was made at a workers’ convention held at the Lal Qila Ground in Azizabad.

Unlike the past, the MQM did not invite the media to cover the event.

According to a press release, Mr Hussain addressed a meeting of workers of units and sectors of the MQM in Karachi and all organisational wings and office-bearers of various committees from London by phone and discussed a number of issues.

“On the complaints of workers, Mr Hussain immediately dissolved the Karachi Tanzeemi Committee of the MQM,” it said.

Other organisational issues highlighted by workers were also being considered and another general workers’ meeting had been scheduled for Saturday, the statement said, adding that more decisions would be taken then.

It said that Mr Hussain had appealed to all dejected senior and sincere workers to return to the party fold for the better future of the movement and the nation.

He said that all workers who had become inactive for any reason but “whose conscience was satisfied that they never indulged in acts of dishonesty, nor betrayed, nor had any vested interests while remaining in the party” should return to it.