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THE EXILED CHIEF of the main political party in Pakistan’s largest city is facing investigation for allegedly talking about sex to a group of male and female staff, police said Saturday.
Altaf Hussain, the head of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), had been filmed explaining intercourse to the workers in Karachi via phone from London, according to police.
A woman who saw the footage online of the alleged talk alerted police, who have now filed a case against Hussain.
“We have registered a case against Altaf Hussain and 20 of his party colleagues under the charges of publicly uttering immodest words after a woman named as Nasreen filed an application against them,” Rao Muhammad Anwar, senior superintendent of police in the Malir area of Karachi, told AFP.
In a statement to authorities, Nasreen wrote she had been browsing the internet when she came across the clip of Hussain, addressing a mixed group of staff.
“He was publicly telling the women about the sexual contact between male and female and his party workers were also repeating his words. It seems that he was intoxicated,” she said.
Anwar said other MQM leaders, including members of parliament and the party’s candidate for Karachi mayor, were facing investigation over allegations such as organising the meeting and repeating Hussain’s words.
But a spokesman for MQM hit back, saying the investigation was unconstitutional.
“Our party is a law abiding party which believes in peaceful struggle and these kind of cases against party leadership is against the constitution of the country. We will face it in the court,” said Amin ul Haq, who is also named in the case.
The party refused to comment on the accusations.
Talking publicly about sex is taboo in largely conservative Muslim Pakistan.
The MQM, which is run by Hussain from London, is the main political party in Karachi, a city of 20 million.
It represents an ethnic migrant community and is the fourth largest party in the lower house of parliament with 23 members.
But it has long been blamed for ethnic violence in Karachi and has clashed repeatedly with the authorities.
A court has slapped a complete ban on the broadcast or publication of Hussain’s speeches in the national media.
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To gruesome to show here??
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phew!
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Tu-tu
911
1+1=
Yoo hoo
Where is Frank? I miss Frank!
Chew
Choo choo
walla-walla-bing-bang!
Jaysus ya lost Me …
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Tree
I don’t know what a tracker mortgage is
Marty Whelan shagged my sister!
KooKoo Kachew
Welcome to the real world of their twisted Ideology, thankfully he only snuffed out his own life and not any innocents.
As disgustingly gruesome as it might be..if it demonstrates to all these young people running over to Syria what will be their eventual fate, it might stop some of them going.
Amazingly the people in the restaurant only suffered minor injuries.
C’est bien fait pour lui, I say. Feed his remains to the pigs and guillotine all the rest of the Islamist dogs.
Mais oui bien sur..qui seme le vent….
Show exactly what these lunatics do ? Sure we cant be having that….
I’m amazed that nobody other than the bomber died in that explosion.
I cant be ar##d..ive seen loads of sunnis get atomised on youtube and liveleaks.
Pop goes the weasel
Terror gore.
Hopefully this doesn’t set a precedent for a ratings war of blood.
Just curious about the headline – “apparent” – who writes these headlines?
We don’t to see this,it’s exactly what they would want.
He was the only one that died. Everyone else only suffered minor injuries. I’d say that’s a good kick up the hole for them.
I would have assumed that broadcasting such footage would be counter-productive in efforts to prevent similar events.
If the motives of the people behind the attacks thrive on distilling fear, wouldn’t this be advertising their cause? Especially the prominence of fame amongst peers.
Yes, there will be queues of people in the streets tomorrow copying this.
Not quite what I meant, I’m talking about the deciding factor for people who are already involved with those groups, not the recruitment.
Essentially what these people are doing is trying to send a message rather than killing specific people. I’m not saying that a media blackout is possible, but hypothetically speaking if a blackout was to happen every time an attack like this happened, would they stop happening?
Not quite what I meant, I’m talking about the deciding factor for people who are already involved with those groups, not the recruitment.
Essentially what these people are doing is trying to send a message rather than killing specific people. I’m not saying that a media blackout is possible, but hypothetically speaking if a blackout was to happen every time an attack like this happened, would they stop happening?
Francis, You have a point sort of regarding fear but I think keeping people in the dark is always a bad idea and possibly causes more fear and as Jenni points out it may stop some people from acting.
That’s a fair point! I was calling out the extremes.
What I meant to establish was just the format of which it’s delivered, there’s no need to keep people in the dark with these events. But does releasing video footage have any benefits?
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