Dr Farooq Sattar, the MQM’s parliamentary leader in the National Assembly. – File Photo by APP

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Wednesday in their Coordination committee’s meeting, vowed to continue boycotting Sindh Assembly sessions until their ‘concerns’ were removed, DawnNews reported.

A meeting would be convened between the provincial leaders of both parties on Sunday to thrash out the issues raised by the MQM, said the Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar after a meeting of MQM delegation with the president in Islamabad.

The President Zardari held out the assurance to a four-member MQM delegation, headed by the party’s parliamentary leader in the National Assembly, Dr Farooq Sattar, after discussing for almost three hours the situation in Karachi, with particular reference to a recent statement of Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza about a controversial peace committee that had created tension between the coalition partners.

MQM leader Wasay Jalil told DawnNews that his party would hold its principled stand on the issue until all its concerns were resolved. Jalil said that his party would carry on boycotting all Sindh Assembly sessions until the meeting on Sunday.

He further said that in the mean time any National Assembly or Senate’s sessions would also be boycotted.

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