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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Pervaiz Rashid has said that the government cannot intervene in the issue of the MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s arrest as the UK has its own laws relevant to the matter. Addressing the concluding session of the first parliamentary conference on Millennium Development Goals and later talking to media persons, Pervaiz Rashid said the moment when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif heard about the arrest of the MQM chief, he directed the Pakistani counsellor in the UK to extend moral and legal assistance in this regard. The minister hoped that the MQM leadership would play a key role to bring the situation in Karachi back to normality. He added that Altaf Hussain was ill and everyone was concerned about his illness. Denouncing the statement by Aitzaz Ahsan, the minister said the government extended full support to the issue of a passport and identity card to Altaf Hussain. He asked why the PPP governme

Phase One (1906-1947)                                           The Muslim League has passed through three distinct phases in its history of almost one hundred years. The first phase began in December 1906, when Muslim leaders from all over the South Asian Subcontinent laid down the foundations of the All-India Muslim League (AIML) at Dhaka to provide a platform for the Indian Muslims to fight for the protection of their rights and interests. Its primary aim then was to secure separate electorates for the Muslims, for which it organized a systematic campaign both within the Subcontinent and in Britain . Its demand was accepted and incorporated in the Government of India Act of 1909. Once that objective was achieved, it moved to forge close relations with the Indian National Congress, which had opposed its demand for separate electorates. Among other motivating factors were the Muslim disappointment at the annulment of the Partition of Bengal (1911), and the British re