Former Pakistani army chief General (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg has said that late dictator Zia-ul-Haq was responsible for the formation of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM).
In an interview to the Voice of America, General Beg, who was the vice-chief of the army staff in General Zia’s military administration, said, “It was Zia who had founded the Muttahida Quami Movement.”
MQM broadly represents the Urdu speaking migrants from India who were settled in Pakistan’s business hub Karachi after the bitter Partition of the subcontinent in 1947.
General Beg said it was under the present government that the offices of MQMs rival, MQM (Haqeeqi), were shut down and its people sent to jail.
