Scotland Yard on Thursday charged the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain, living in exile in the U.K., with an offence of encouraging terrorism in connection with a speech relayed to followers in Pakistan. The Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command said Hussain will appear before the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London charged under Section 1(2) of the U.K.’s Terrorism Act 2006 with encouraging terrorism. Hussain (65), requested asylum in the 1990s and later gained the U.K. citizenship. The MQM supremo had not only raised slogans against Pakistan but also called the country “a cancer for entire world“. Hussain’s U.K. media office, calling itself the MQM Secretariat, issues regular communique against the Pakistani government.

Source: The Hindu October 10, 2019 12:33 UTC