02/02/2022
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) supremo Altaf Hussain took a dig at the break-away faction of his party by saying that he enjoyed popular support when the Karachi chapter of the party still operated under him, prior to the August 22, 2016 speech, for which Hussain is standing the hate-speech trial.
On the first day of his trial, Hussain attended the court with a large number of his colleagues at the Kingston-upon-Thames crown court. Nothing significant happened in the court as the jury is likely to take oath on Wednesday and the prosecution will set out its case before a jury of 12 which will ultimately decide the outcome of the charge.
Hussain arrived at the court in a Range Rover, driven by his legal advisor Adil Ghaffar. He was accompanied by Mustafa Azizabadi, Suhail Khanzada, Nasir Ali, and other members of his MQM-London faction. He entered the court in a wheelchair.
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