KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) chief Farooq Sattar has filed in the Sindh High Court pre-arrest bail applications against 31 cases of involvement in hate speech.
“The government should review these charges,” he said while talking to the media outside the high court on Monday.
The protective bail application against four cases was also filed by MQM-P’s Amir Khan.
Sattar was accompanied by other party leaders, including Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and Advocate Mahfooz Yar Khan.
A few days back, an anti-terrorism court ordered Rangers DG Major General Muhammad Saeed to arrest and present Sattar and others in the court by May 31.
The directives were issued after the police failed to arrest the accused.
MQM’s founding leader — in a speech to participants of a hunger strike outside the Karachi Press Club on August 22, 2016 — incited party workers following which they took to the streets, ransacked media houses and vandalised property.
At least one person died and eight others were injured in the ensuing violence.
