Taliban threat on rise in Karachi: MQM chief Altaf

Taliban threat on rise in Karachi: MQM chief Altaf

* MQM chief says burning female educational institutions, killing innocents ‘ignorance’
* Visit of Umme Hassan part of conspiracy

By Fareed Farooqui

Ignorance: The MQM leader said: “Terrorists strangle innocent men and women, old and young and burn down female educational institutions in the name of Islam. This is ignorance. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) said that ‘it is obligatory for every man and woman to get education’.” He urged intellectuals and writers to tell the masses about ‘conspiracies of Talibanisation’. The country is going through a crisis, he said, adding that its sovereignty will be threatened if the ‘menace of Talibanisation’ was not curbed. The MQM has fulfilled it duty by informing people about the impending threat time and again, he said. “The people here [in Pakistan] were Muslims and are Muslims.

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