Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London

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The Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London (Urdu: متحدہ قومی موومنٹ - لندن, Muttaḥidah Qọ̄mī Mūwmaṅṫ Laundan), also known as MQM–London (Urdu: ایم کیو ایم - لندن), previously known as the Muhajir Qaumi Movement – Altaf or MQM–Altaf, was a Muhajir nationalist and secular socio-liberalist political party in Pakistan that was founded by Altaf Hussain in 1984. Currently the party was split between multiple factions. The MQM–London faction, which was controlled by Altaf Hussain from London, while the separate MQM–Pakistan was run by Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui based in Pakistan, while another, the MQM-Haqiqi faction, was led by Afaq Ahmed. Its electoral symbol was a kite. It was founded as a student organization, All Pakistan Muhajir Student Organization (APMSO), in 1978 by Altaf Hussain. APMSO gave birth to the Muhajir Qaumi Movement in 1984. In 1997, the MQM removed the term Muhajir (which denoted the party's roots among the country's Urdu-speaking community) from its name and replaced it with Muttahida...

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