Altaf claims British police have made life difficult for him

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-921kz29Pq3PCwSDPci11sbIFYQTFr-ChG7d_FhCfsDsRLJVxMZpnao4wy_6gHC9x0yGfAGyZazwsBkkQkalK__ywDAiKTAYOBBnMdabDnSuMB2bcw_QTJnOU_xWxMs8OIB19-XvBEVrA/s1600/altaf-hussain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-921kz29Pq3PCwSDPci11sbIFYQTFr-ChG7d_FhCfsDsRLJVxMZpnao4wy_6gHC9x0yGfAGyZazwsBkkQkalK__ywDAiKTAYOBBnMdabDnSuMB2bcw_QTJnOU_xWxMs8OIB19-XvBEVrA/s1600/altaf-hussain.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x18dj5x" width="480"></iframe><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;">LAHORE: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain said on Friday that the British police has made life difficult for him, but he is prepared to face any situation that may arise, Express News reported.</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The British government can either seize my passport or kill me,” he alleged at the launch of his book Falsafa-e-Mohabbat in Lahore.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> The MQM chief, speaking via telephone, said that he has never bowed down in front of the establishment, and would never bow down or surrender, even if they take his life.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Altaf said that the prime suspects in the Mehran-gate scandal General Aslam Beg were still alive. “General Hamid Gul is alive, Brigadier Imtiaz is alive, Aslam Beg is alive. You can ask any of them whether they sent briefcases full of money or not. And also ask them if Altaf Hussain accepted this money or refused it.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Altaf claimed that not accepting the money was his crime. “I swear there is no politician other than me who rejected the money. This is my crime.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> He added that he did not take money from army, agencies and that he was ready to give his life for Pakistan, “but do not say I did so for money. Altaf Hussain is not one who takes money to love his country.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Recounting his nine month detention, Altaf said that he was punished for a crime that he did not commit. “I spent nine months in prison for a crime I did not commit and blamed for climbing a pole in front of Quaid-e-Azam’s mausoleum and unfurled a black flag above the Pakistan flag.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I don’t know how to climb a pole. If you say I climbed via a ladder, the question here was of climbing with hands and feet. Nor do I know of any flag. We were standing outside the mausoleum fence.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> At this point, the MQM chief exclaimed that the “Lahore’s public should know today that I am not the product of the establishment.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Talking about the recent investigations in which MQM’s offices were searched and some party associates were briefly detained, Altaf said that nothing can wrest his faith from him.</div>

Altaf claims British police have made life difficult for him

 LAHORE: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain said on Friday that the British police has made life difficult for him, but he is prepared to face any situation that may arise, Express News reported. “The British government can either seize my passport or kill me,” he alleged at the launch of…

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