KARACHI, NOV 09 (DNA) – Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) chief Farooq Sattar has announced to quit politics. IN a press conference he announced this decision.

Kamran Tessori, a senior MQM-P leader, told that Farooq Sattar is displeased with party leaders’ attitude after his decision of forming a political alliance with party’s bitter critic Mustafa Kamal.

Rival parties Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) and Mutahidda Qaumi Movement- Pakistan (MQM-P) announced to form a political alliance and vowed to contest next general elections under “one banner, name, manifesto and electoral symbol.

Addressing a joint press conference at Karachi Press Club on November 8, MQM-P chief and PSP chief Mustafa Kamal announced what Kamal terms a “merger: of the two parties who were once a part of Altaf Hussain-led MQM.

“To solve problems of people of Karachi through collective efforts and to further our agenda of non-violence, we have decided to form a political alliance. We will decide the name and modalities of this alliance in future but one thing is for sure, we will contest next general elections under one name, one banner, one manifesto and one electoral symbol,” Farooq Sattar had said.

Sattar maintained that the modalities of this alliance will be crafted after meetings between the two parties.