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MQM

Muttahida Qaumi Movement
متحدہ قومی موومنٹ
Leader Altaf Hussain
Convener Nadeem Nusrat
Founder Altaf Hussain
Founded March 18, 1984 (1984)
Headquarters Nine Zero; 494/8, Azizabad, F.B Area
Karachi, Pakistan
Students wing All Pakistan Muttahidda Students Organization (APMSO)
Charity Wing Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF)
Paramilitary wing Wafa Parast
Ideology Muhajir Nationalism
Secularism
Social Liberalism
Political position Centre-left to Left-wing
Colors Red, green and white
            
Slogan Empowering People
Senate
8 / 104
National Assembly
24 / 342
Sindh Assembly
50 / 168
Party flag
Flag of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.svg
Website
www.mqm.org

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) (Urdu: متحدہ قومی موومنٹ‎, Muttaḥidah Qọ̄mī Mūwmaṅṫ), is a secular political party in Pakistan founded by Altaf Hussain in 1984.

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 (that denotes the party roots among the country's Urdu-speaking community) from its name and replaced it with Muttahida ("United"). The MQM is generally known as a party that holds strong mobilizing potential in Karachi, having traditionally been the dominant political force in the city. Muttahida Qaumi Movement is the second largest party in Sindh and overall the fourth-largest party in the National Assembly of Pakistan after the Pakistan Muslim League (N), Pakistan Peoples Party, and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf.

The party has kept its influence over Pakistan's federal government as a key coalition partner since the late 1980s (1988-1990, 1990-1992, 2002-2007, 2008-2013). However, MQM parliamentarians resigned from the National Assembly, Senate and Provincial Assembly of Sindh in protest against a crackdown on party supporters.


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