MQM-P wants administrative restructuring of Sindh without altering boundaries: Mustafa Kamal

• Alleges 18th Amendment divided country into ‘four independent states’ • At separate presser, Farooq Sattar claims Sindh to have six administrative units soon KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan leader and Federal Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal has said his party wants “administrative restructuring of Sindh without altering its boundaries”. “We want administrative units with their own assemblies and chief executives, where National Finance Commission [NFC] funds are directly transferred,” he told a press conference here at the party’s temporary headquarters in Bahadurabad on Saturday. However, the absence of party chairman Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and senior leader Dr Farooq Sattar from Mr Kamal’s press conference suggested that the party’s internal rifts over leadership control are far from over.

In the evening, Dr Sattar held a separate press conference, conspicuous by Mr Kamal’s absence, where he announced a rally to be held on Sunday (today) and claimed that six administrative units would soon be created in Sindh. At the first press conference, Mr Kamal said that the 18th Amendment had practically divided the country into “four independent states” and the MQM-P wanted to unite the country through the creation of new administrative units. Accompanied by senior leader Anis Kaimkhani and others, he made it clear that whoever leads the campaign for administrative units — whether a person, institution, or ruler — will be their hero for saving Pakistan. “The PPP is furious [over new administrative units] because they realise the sun is setting on their power and the public will now hold them accountable,” he said, accusing the ruling party of “conspiring to associate the entire Sindhi nation with some corrupt beneficiaries of the current system”. Mr Kamal…