Fifteen officers took part in a dawn raid at his north London home, Geo News reported.Īltaf Hussain has been arrested in relation to the hate speech of 2016 in which he had urged his followers to take the law into their own hands, it said. Hussain was arrested on Tuesday morning and taken to a south London police station. The MQM has dominated politics in Karachi for three decades because of its support in the densely populated working class neighbourhoods of Urdu-speaking Muhajirs, descendants of Muslims who migrated from India when Pakistan was created in 1947.įollowing his arrest, Karachi city police chief Amir Ahmed Shaikh issued directions for stepped up patrolling and vigilance with anti-riot squads and equipment in Karachi. The Metropolitan Police would only confirm that a man in his 60s had been held in an investigation into speeches related to his MQM party. Altaf Hussain, the exiled leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), one of Pakistan’s biggest political parties, was arrested on Tuesday by Scotland Yard in London over his anti-state speeches, especially the one in 2016 in which he said Pakistan was the “epicentre of terrorism” and “a cancer for entire world”.
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