Summary Prime Minister postponed his today's visit to Karachi.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has postponed his visit to Karachi till Wednesday as he is waiting for British authorities` response on BBC report in which it had alleged the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) of taking financial assistance from Indian intelligence agency RAW, Dunya News reported.
On Friday, the government sent a letter to British authorities seeking information and facts of the report.
According to sources, the information would play vital role in implementation of National Action Plan (NAP) in Karachi whereas the premier would hold further consultations regarding various decisions to maintain law and order in the city.
The BBC had touched off a political firestorm in Pakistan last week, quoting “an authoritative Pakistani source” as saying that senior MQM officials had told police in the United Kingdom that “the party was receiving Indian funding”.
The report quoted Pakistani officials as claiming that hundreds of MQM workers had been trained by India over the last decade in “explosives, weapons and sabotage”.
In his statement recorded at Edgware Police Station, MQM leader Tariq Mir had told police that the party’s top leadership held a series of secret meetings with India’s Research and Analysis Wing in the mid-1990s.
At secret meetings in Rome, Vienna, Zurich, Salzburg and Prague, the MQM leadership asked for $1.5 million in assistance, he alleged.
