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KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has announced its unconditional support to the Sindh-based parties against the settlement of displaced people in the province. 
“We assure MQM’s support and cooperation to Sindh-based parties who are protesting against the camps of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the province,” said deputy convenor MQM Rabita Committee and Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis, Dr Farooq Sattar, while addressing a press conference here Friday. 
Provincial Minister Shoaib Bukhari, Waseem Aftab, Saleem Tajik, Kanwar Khalid Younis and others were also present on the occasion. 
Sattar said that MQM believed in the sovereignty and stability of the country therefore it would not allow the spread of Talibanisation in the Sindh province. 
“We shall meet Chief Minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah to discuss these issues today and later we shall bring the concerns of people of Sindh to the notice of President Asif Zardari and Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik during their visits of the province,” he announced. 
To a question about exchange of firing between Pakistan Rangers and the IDPs, he said MQM would propose to the government to stop the entry of migrants from other provinces in view of these incidents. The residents of any province should live in their own areas and they should be provided all civic facilities in their hometowns”, he added. 

The Nation:May 23,2009