Pak leader requests PM Modi for asylum, financial aid for court fees

British Pakistani fugitive and founder of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide asylum to him and his colleagues. In his speech relayed on social media, Hussain also urged India for financial assistance to take his case to the International Court of Justice in Hague. 

"If India today, and Prime Minister Modi, allow me to come to India and provided me asylum with my colleagues, I am ready to come to India along with my colleagues because my grandfather is buried there, my grandmother is buried there; my thousands of relatives are buried there, in India. I want to go there, to their graves. I want to pray," said Hussain.

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Financial assistance

Welcoming the Supreme Court’s verdict on Ayodhya, MQM leader promised that he will not interfere in the country’s politics. Hussain lamented the fact that his house and offices have been seized and had no means to "fight for justice" against the Pakistani regime.

"If you don't provide us shelter, give us some influential financial people to come and go to the international court. I have no money so you ask your people to pay the court fees, I will fight alone at the International Court of Justice for Baloch, Sindhis and Muhajirs and all other ethnic-religious minorities," said Hussain.

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Charged for inciting terrorism

Last month, Scotland Yard had charged Hussain with an offense of inciting terrorism through his speech relayed to his followers in Pakistan and is currently on strict bail conditions imposed by the court. It is not clear whether his recent speech has breached those conditions or not. 

"On August 22, 2016, [he] published a speech to crowds gathered in Karachi, Pakistan, which were likely to be understood by some or all of the members of the public to whom they were published as a direct or indirect encouragement to them to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism and at the time he published them, intended them to be so encouraged, or was reckless as to whether they would be so encouraged," the Met Police said in a statement.

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(With PTI Inputs)