KARACHI: As Muttahida Qaumi Movement dissident Anis Kaimkhani on Tuesday raised the ante by expressing the resolve to take his still unnamed party from the confines of its Defence Housing Authority headquarters to all parts of the city by the end of the month, senior MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar said the party would launch a clean-up initiative on Thursday with a view to ridding the city of garbage and taking `every kind of trash to its final destination`.

The announcement made by Dr Sattar at a press conference held at the Khurshid Begum secretariat was considered a veiledthreat to the MQM dissidents Mr Kaimkhani, Syed Mustafa Kamal and Dr Sagheer Ahmed who recently quit the Altaf Hussain-led party to form their own party.

At the press conference, Dr Sattar said the MQM would launch the Clean Karachi campaign from March 10 in all the six districts of the metropolis. `We will clean our city of garbage and take it to its final destination for disposal during the Clean Karachi campaign through which we will successfully remove whatever confusion there is in the people`s mind,` he added.

Around the same time, Mr Kaimkhani also spoke to a group of journalists in Defence. He claimed that by the end of thismonth, his party would be able to organise a big gathering anywhere in the city. Asked if he would hold the public meeting in Azizabad`s Jinnah Ground, he said: `We will make any ground of Karachi the Jinnah Ground.

While responding to the veiled threat, MQM dissident Dr Ahmed told reporters laterintheeveningthathehadgreatrespect for Dr Sattar who was talking about `disposal` and sending to `final destination` only in the fear of the London leadership. `I l
Dr Ahmed challenged the MQM supremo to return to Pakistan, saying he would contest election against him in any constituencyof the country.

All parties invited to Clean Karachi campaign Dr Sattar, who is senior deputy convener of the MQM`s coordination committee, invited all parties, including the Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Jamaat-iIslami and Awami National Party, to join in the campaign. He said the MQM was sending emails to the parties and they should come forward and play their role in making Karachi a clean city.

He claimed that the cleanliness campaign would continue until the elections of city mayor, deputy mayor, chairmen and vice chairmen of the district municipal corporations were held.

Dr Sattar said a similar drive would be launched in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas after Karachi.

`Several MQM leaders are in our contact` Meanwhile, Mr Kaimkhani claimed that several leaders and workers of the MQM were in touch with him and they were ready to join the new party. `People of Karachi and Sindh are contacting us and very soon they will get good news,` he said.

He said he was ready to cooperate with the police investigators probing the Baldia factory fire case and the cases against Dr Asim Hussain. About the cases, Mr Kaimkhani said action should be taken against anyone on the basis of concrete evidence and not merely on the basis of a joint investigation team report.