<div id="title">There is no writ of govt in Karachi: Imran Khan</div> <div id="author"><br /> Sunday, 03 May, 2009 | 11:47 AM PST |</div> <!-- STORY TOOL --> <div id="icons">  <script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <!-- ADDTHIS BUTTON END --></div> <!-- STORY TOOL --> <!-- IMAGE 608x325 --> <div id="image"><img width="608" height="325" border="0" name="" alt="" src="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/eb933f004df7282ead0ebf51bb28a41f/imran---608.jpg?MOD=AJPERES" /></div> <!-- IMAGE CAPTION --> <div class="setfont" id="image_txt">There is no writ of government in Karachi: Imran Khan. ??? AP/File Photo</div> <div id="relation"> <div id="end"> </div> </div> <!-- BODY TEXT --> <p><strong>LAHORE: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf Chairman, Imran Khan, has said that there is no threat to Karachi from the recent fear of  Talibanisation but the real threat is from MQM Chief Altaf Hussain.</strong></p> <p>Tehrik-e-Insaaf Chairman was talking to the media at the Lahore Airport after the authorities stopped him from boarding a Karachi-bound flight.</p> <p>He said that there is no writ of the government in Karachi and asked the government to explain under which law he has been stopped from travelling to Karachi.</p> <p>Imran Khan went on to say that the MQM is not a party; it???s a mafia.</p> <p>The PTI Chairman said that the government is trying to protect Altaf Hussain the May 12 Karachi carnage case.</p> <p>Imran Khan said he wanted to visit Karachi to raise funds for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust Cancer Hospital.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/16-there-is-no-writ-of-government-in-karachi-imran-khan-hs-13">www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/16-there-is-no-writ-of-government-in-karachi-imran-khan-hs-13</a></p>