Keeping this in mind, the announcement by Sattar is being seen as a compromise reached between the MQM and the army high command. Political analysts say that despite being boycotted by all major political parties in the country as well as confronting the Pakistan Army, the MQM’s political fortunes have only brightened. A move by the army to introduce an alternate leadership in the form of former MQM mayor Mustafa Kamal failed miserably. The real challenge that came to Hussain was neither from the MQM nor from political forces in Pakistan. Sitting in the UK as a Britsih citizen, Hussain remains safe from the reach of the ISI and the army high command.

Source: Hindustan Times August 24, 2016 11:26 UTC