MQM Founder Altaf Hussain loses £10m properties case at UK High Court

MQM founder Altaf Hussain has lost £10 million approximate worth of London properties case.

According to the media reports, the founder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has lost properties case to his former loyalists in the MQM-Pakistan (MQM-P) after a legal battle at the UK High Court. Information Technology Minister Syed Aminul Haque represented the party in the UK court.

Sitting as a High Court Judge in the High Court of Justice Business and Property Court of England and Wales, Judge Clive Jones has ruled that that the MQM-P is the real MQM and its members are the true beneficiaries of the trusts that control London’s properties which are currently under the control of Altaf Hussain.

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Judge Clive Jones ruled that MQM Founder Altaf Hussain had resigned from the party after his August 2016 speech. The judgment means that the UK judge has ruled in the favour of MQM-P led by Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, and against MQM-London. He has ruled that the lawyer acting for Syed Aminul Haque of MQM-P has established that the MQM’s April 2016 Constitution was adopted and “it has not been established that the 2015 Constitution was adopted and on the balance of probability it was not.”

In his judgment, Judge Jones said, “As on 23 August 2016 Mr Altaf Hussain stood down from any role in or involvement with MQM-P. Whether temporarily or permanently that did not alter before his expulsion from MQM-P when he formed a new association operating from London.”

It is to be noted here that the MQM-P and Syed Aminul Haque were represented by Barrister Nazar Mohammad and Hussain and his colleagues were represented by Richard Blake KC.