Ruling MQM to make electoral alliance with outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba

Muttahida Qaumi Movement, an ally of the PPP-led ruling coalition, has started making efforts to enter into electoral alliance with outlawed terrorist group Sipah-e-Sahaba, a pro-Deobandi Urdu daily reported here.
 
Daily Ummat broke the news that MQM Chief Altaf Hussain had established friendly contacts with Tahir Ashrafi, former general secretary of banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Punjab chapter, who is a close friend of notorious takfiri terrorist Malik Ishaq of outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
 
Altaf Hussain has informed Tahir Ashrafi that Shia Muslims across Pakistan dislike the MQM and now Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen is emerging as a major party of Shiites. He informed him that Shias would vote MWM-backed electoral contenders in forthcoming elections.
 
He asked him to ensure that banned Sipah-e-Sahaba (that has been renamed as Ahl-e-Sunnat wal Jamaat) formally join hands with the MQM through an electoral alliance mainly in Punjab in reciprocation to MQM’s support to the ASWJ in Karachi. Altaf assured him that MQM got him elected as senator as a reward for his role to form an electoral alliance or adjustments with the ASWJ.
 
Governor Sindh Dr Ishrat ul Ibad who hails from the ruling MQM also hosted Ahmed Ludhianvi, chief of outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba/ASWJ at Governor House many a times.