Farooq Sattar

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Dr. Farooq Sattar

Dr. Farooq Sattar Pirwani (Urdu: فاروق ستار) is the Deputy Convener and Parliamentary leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a mainstream & third largest political party in Pakistan.[1]He belongs to Memon, family and lives in PIB Colony of Karachi, a modest and lower-middle income class area. A former mayor of Karachi, he was the youngest mayor in its history when he was elected at age 28.[2]. He has also served as Provincial Minister in the Sindh Cabinet for Local Bodies and is one of the senior Members of the MQM Co-Ordination Committee. Dr Farooq Sattar is also heading Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate. [3] He is a doctor and wanted to become a plastic surgeon but due to some problems he decided to come in politics. He is from a middle class family and his and his Party's aim is to take middle class and poors on the political structure of Pakistan. His party has faced many difficulties for its alleged involvement in terrorist activities and playing ethnic politics, but fortunately it is transforming itself into a mainstream party.

On 16 March 2008 he was nominated as Prime Minister of Pakistan candidate by the opposition parties in Pakistan.

[edit] Criminal charges

On Nov 22, 2009, Pakistan government released the limited list of beneficiaries of notorious legal act called National Reconciliation Ordinance which granted amnesty to politicians, political workers and bureaucrats who were accused of corruption, embezzlement, money-laundering, murder and terrorism between 1st January 1986 and October 12th 1999, the time between two Martial Laws. According to the list, the supreme leader of MQM, Altaf Hussain, had the highest number of cases withdrawn against him - 72, with 31 on murder and 11 on murder attempts. MQM's leader in national assembly, Farooq Sattar had the second highest number of cases withdrawn - 23 , including five on charges of murder and four on attempt to murder. ^[1]

[edit] See also

• Altaf Hussain
• Muttahida Qaumi Movement

[edit] References

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