Umer Khan Ali Sherzai, Pakistan's former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, has joined Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). Sherzai made this announcement while addressing a news conference at MQM headquarters 'Nine Zero', Azizabad on Tuesday. Members MQM Co-ordination Committee, Raza Haroon, Nasreen Jalil, Shoaib Bokhari, Rauf Siddiqui and others were also present.
He said MQM was the only party in the country, which had raised its voice against feudalism. The former ambassador hoped that soon MQM would appear to be the largest political party on the political scene of the country. The former ambassador joined the party along with his companions, adding that many sitting MNAs and MPAs in Fata will also join MQM by the end of March this year.
Umer Khan has reposed full confidence into the leadership of MQM Quaid Altaf Hussain. Raza Haroon, Member Co-ordination Committee welcomed Sherzai on behalf of MQM Quaid, members of Co-ordination Committees and all MQM workers. Raza informed media that former ambassador was in contact with MQM for long and after reading and understanding the manifesto of MQM, Sherzai has joined the party.
Meanwhile, MQM Quaid Altaf Hussain has congratulated former ambassador Umer Khan Ali Sherzai saying that he needed honest people like Umar Sherzai. Talking to Sherzai on phone, Altaf said only the honest people like Sherzai could bring a real change in the country. Altaf said that conspiracies were hatched in the past to stop the message of MQM from spreading in the country, but MQM was gaining increasing public acceptance in the country despite all the conspiracies by the Grace of Allah.
He said that the MQM workers were present in Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu & Kashmir and the tribal areas and the MQM has become the centre of hope of the oppressed and downtrodden people throughout the country.
He said that various allegations were levelled against him, but no one could make the allegation of corruption. He was in politics for over 35 years, and during this period billions of rupees were distributed among the poor and needy, but nothing for himself.