BBC is about to up to air a special report on MQM Chief, Altaf Hussain’s connections to the Indian government.
According to the BBC report, a official has told the BBC that India has trained hundreds of MQM militants over the last 10 years. However, Indian authorities described the claims as “completely baseless”
The BBC report also claimed that British authorities held formal recorded interviews with senior MQM officials who told them the party was receiving Indian funding.
According to the BBC report “Before 2005-2006 the training was given to a small number of mid-ranking members of the MQM, the official said. More recently greater numbers of more junior party members have been trained,”
The Indian High Commission in London commenting about the connection with MQM, “Shortcomings of governance cannot be rationalised by blaming neighbours.”
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said, “The party has a mafia side and a political side but the political side is shrinking. Most people would be shocked but occasionally he does give the impression that he is being controlled from outside,”
According to unofficial reports, BBC has closed its Karachi office while staffers have been sent to Islamabad in preparation for the airing of BBC Two’s News Night programme. News Night, which is hosted by Owen Bennett Jones, will air at 2:30am (PST).
