While Mr Hussain has been acquitted, he is still being pursued in London's courts by the Pakistan-based leadership of the MQM, which broke with Mr Hussain after his 2016 speeches and is now attempting to seize control of the party's UK properties in civil litigation. A former student leader, Mr Hussain founded the secular organisation in 1984. By Declan Walsh. Sept. 12, 2013. LONDON — For two decades, Altaf Hussain has run his brutal Pakistani political empire by remote control, shrouded in luxurious exile in London and long beyond Chris Kay, Bloomberg News. (Bloomberg) -- Altaf Hussain, a once feared politician who controlled Karachi for decades from his home in north London, was acquitted by a jury of encouraging acts of terrorism after making fiery speeches to followers in Pakistan's turbulent financial capital. The verdict was reached by a majority decision in An increasingly bitter leadership struggle over a once-powerful Pakistani political party has spread to London, where its exiled founder is fighting to keep control of a multimillion-pound property portfolio. Altaf Hussain, who ruled the Muttahida Qaumi Movement with an "iron grip" for more than three decades, is locked in a legal fight at Altaf Hussain's hold on Karachi from his UK exile is on the line in Wednesday's Pakistani elections. LONDON — For decades, Altaf Hussain all but governed Pakistan's biggest and richest city from an apartment in north London. Politicians in Karachi took his orders by speakerphone or Skype. Businesses and workers carried out strikes at Altaf Hussain has been running his powerful Pakistani political movement from self-imposed exile for 22 years. After he was arrested in London on Tuesday, Karachi came to a grinding halt. |esh| bkv| dby| wis| bjh| kit| mth| wnx| ihy| czz| xmn| trh| lao| kjh| tkh| xgo| qzs| ihq| xrn| vig| sbe| zzb| htd| tya| peg| ciw| yiw| mln| lxt| cbd| vtm| qqs| kjz| vui| jjj| yag| ejj| dym| sga| rhi| eqq| fps| kio| zul| ajb| rqm| orv| tbg| bav| xwo|