Syed Mustafa Kamal

Syed Mustafa Kamal (Urdu: سید مصطفى کمال ‎) was a Senator in the Senate of Pakistan and served as the nazim (mayor) of the city of Karachi, Pakistan[2] from 2005 to 2010. Kamal had affiliations with the Pakistani liberalist party Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Both of his parents Anis Ahmed and his mother Jamila Khatoon belonged to the Urdu-speaking Muhajir Bihari family and settled in Karachi. He was chosen for Mayor Karachi by MQM leader and he worked hard under lines of Party policy and became very successfull. He was shortlisted for the World Mayor Prize in 2010. Kamal awarded the award to MQM and leader as all directions to work at its best was from him. He has also served as the IT Minister for the Sindh province from 2003 to 2005.In 2013, he was elected to the Pakistani Senate from Sindh.

According to New York Times, Syed Mustafa Kamal has left Pakistan after developing differences with Altaf Hussain. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement announced that Syed Mustafa Kamal submitted his resignation from Senate seat and left Pakistan due to personal and family reasons.

On August 5th, 2015, it was reported in many media outlets that ex Mayor and former member MQM traveled to Islamabad to attend important meetings. This was reportedly his first come back visit. Mustafa Kamal after leaving the political party, joined Malik Riaz’s company Bahria Town

Return to Pakistan[edit]
After leaving Pakistan in August 2013, he started working at Bahria Town Pvt. Ltd, Dubai international branch as a infrastructure consultant. He came back on March 3rd, 2016, and currently residing at the 1.3 Lakh Rs. per month mentione, with millions paid in advance, he was holding a press conference in which he explained his reasoning for leaving the country and the reason to come back.

Mustafa Kamal divided his press conference into three parts as following:

Why did he leave the country?
Why have they returned now and on at whose assurance?
Now that thee have returned, what will he do, how they will be supported?
In the first two parts, he regret for having his life-long personal experiences as a prominent member of Muttahida Qaumi Movement because all of his popularity was because of MQM and its leadership, which he still honor.

In the last part, Mustafa Kamal disclosed that sine he is back and hard revert , he is given idea of the version of a new party as told to lay foundations of, the name of which is not decided yet. According to him, "Today upto this much we know so we are laying the foundation of an organisation, later as soon as we get more we will do more, so you may call it a party. We are just two individuals, but there is a big team to make us work behind myself and Anees Qaimkhani, and obviously media houses are also there to support and propagate idea."