Karachi, Feb. 5 (TNS): A visible split between two senior Muttahida Quami Moverment-Pakistan leaders, Farooq Sattar and Amir Khan, widened over the issue of Senate tickets, local media quoting party sources reported on Monday.
A session of the MQM-P ended in chaos as the two senior party leaders disagreed with each other when the names of candidates for Senate elections were being discussed.
Following the reported disagreement, Sattar and his supporters left Bahadurabad for the MQM-P chief’s residence at PIB Colony.
The supporters of Sattar also chanted slogans in his favour while the supporters of Amir Khan remained with him at the meeting’s venue.
Meanwhile, sources said the session at Bahadurabad will resume soon and will be chaired by Amir Khan.
For the session all town offices members have been summoned, sources added.
Four out of eight MQM-P senators, including Col (R) Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi, Dr. Mohammad Farogh Naseem, Maulana Tanveer-ul-Haq Thanvi, and Nasreen Jalil will retire next month.
Senate elections are scheduled to take place on March 3.
