KARACHI: Rangers released Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders Farooq Sattar and Khawaja Izharul Hassan on Tuesday after the two, along with some other party workers, were arrested last night.
Senior leader Farooq Sattar, who returned to his residence today, said that he will hold an important press conference at 2 pm today where he will share the details from last night with the public. He however declined to comment on yesterday’s events for now.
Farooq Sattar was arrested by Rangers from Karachi Press Club yesterday when he was coming to address a press conference following MQM party workers’ attack on media houses in Karachi â€" an action incited by MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s inflammatory speech during the hunger strike organized by the party at Press Club.
According to sources, around 50 MQM workers were arrested by law enforcement agencies following yesterday’s violence. The detained leaders included Farooq Sattar, Khawaja Izharul Hassan, Arshad Vohra, Khawaja Sohail and Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain.
Altaf Hussain’s speech to participants in the hunger strike incited party workers to take to the streets yesterday, ransack media houses and vandalize property. At least one person died and eight others were injured during the violent attacks in which around 2,000 party workers participated.
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