Summary The strike will continue for the coming three days from 11 am to 11 pm
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has launched a four-day symbolic hunger strike against media coverage ban on party chief Altaf Hussain’s statements, Dunya News reported Friday.
Dr Farooq Sattar, Muhammad Hussain and Kaiful Wari officially launched the strike among other party members in Karachi Press Club at 11 o’clock in the morning.
The strike will continue for the coming three days from 11 am to 11 pm.
A participant clicked at the demonstration today
While addressing a press conference at Khursheed Begum Secretariat on Thursday party’s deputy convener, Dr Sattar had said that workers would consider staging sit-ins after the four-day strike.
It should be mentioned here that a day before announcing hunger strike, MQM’s rabita committee had asked the locals to “stock up food at homes for coming 15 days as something big is likely to happen.”
Media was barred from covering Altaf Hussain’s statements and addresses around six months ago however, Sattar said that decision pertaining to length of the ban was not decided by the authorities. Dr Sattar called for lifting the ban under Article 19 of the Constitution of Pakistan.
Altaf’s media blackout was ordered by Lahore High Court (LHC) in September 2015 by after his controversial, allegedly seditious speech against state institutions and Pakistan Army.
