Resign if you can't do better; or I will break the Sindh government, MQM leader tells Pakistan PM

Muhajir Quami Movement leader Altaf Hussain has threatened to break the coalition government in Pakistan's Sindh province, if Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief does not take strong action against the killings of four Muhajirs in Karachi last week.

The Sindh provincial assembly government is a coalition between the MQM -- the second largest party in the province -- and Sharief's Muslim League.

The self-exiled leader asked Sharief to resign if he is helpless to implement the agreement he reached with the MQM before the government formation.

Hussain, in a long-distance telephonic address to his party workers from London, claimed that the ''state agencies'' (the intelligence network) were responsible for the extra-judicial killings of Muhajirs through the Haqiqi group. This group, an MQM faction, is believed to have been created by the army to fight the Altaf faction.

Hussain said the prime minister had been fully briefed about terrorists activities and the role of various agencies patronising such groups. If Sharief cannot do anything about this, he better resign; or else the MQM would see that the Sindh government falls, Hussain threatened.

UNI