On Tuesday, a British court acquitted the founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in a case involving his notorious remarks encouraging terrorism in Karachi in 2016.
Altaf Hussain was judged not to have broken the UK’s anti-terrorist legislation on August 22, 2016, when he gave separate speeches from London to his party workers in Karachi, according to a majority judgement of 10-2 at the Kingston Crown Court.
“Altaf Hussain was charged with promoting terrorism under section 1(2) of the Terrorism Act (TACT) 2006,” the Met Police stated in a statement on its website.
According to the UK police, Hussain “on August 22, 2016, published a speech to crowds gathered in Karachi, Pakistan that was likely to be understood by some or all of the members of the public to whom they were published as a direct or indirect encouragement to them to commit, prepare, or instigate acts of terrorism, and at the time he published them, intended them to be so encouraged, or was reckless as to whether they would be so encouraged, and at the time he published them, intended them
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