MQM apologists
By Kazim Aizaz Alam
A blog that I regularly read had some obnoxious comment by the blog writer recently. She said she supported the MQM because it was against the Taliban. As she lived in Karachi, she said, she was threatened that if the Taliban took over, they would put her ‘liberty’ in danger.
So the moral of the story is that if you want your ‘liberty’ intact in Karachi you will have to support the MQM. OK, but may I ask her who burnt half a dozen lawyers alive after locking them up in Tahir Chambers on main M A Jinnah Road on April 11, 2008? And who held the whole swathes of Karachi hostage on May 12, 2007, and killed at least 52 people in broad daylight? And what to talk of ‘liberty’ when just a couple of months ago, the MQM instigated a pogrom in certain Pakhtun-dominated areas of Karachi and blatantly killed innocent people?
As late as 1995-96, our ‘liberals’ were downplaying the threat of the Taliban in Karachi (and I have a strong reason to say this). In Karachi University when someone I know referred to the fate of Najibullah (who was killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan) and went on to predict that Talibanisation was a real threat to Pakistani society, these ‘liberals’ rubbished it. Now well after a decade they have come to realise the omnipresent ghost of the Taliban – but only to prop up another Frankenstein’s monster in shape of the fascist MQM to counter the Taliban. What kind of political sagacity is this?
Don’t Pakhtun women living in Karachi have a right to enjoy these ‘civil liberties’ without being persecuted by MQM goons? The MQM has been the worst thing that ever happened to Karachi’s body politic. Its fascist outlook can’t be undone by mere sloganeering against the Taliban. I hate to be personal and attack people’s views directly on the internet but I feel simply disgusted when people think that the MQM (which is more of a killing squad than a political party) can fight the Taliban. They say this as if the MQM could stop the Taliban by the magnitude of its ‘massive’ following (which I doubt goes beyond even two lakh, that too in a few selected localities, who turn up every time there’s a rent-a-rally call by the pir of London).
Their argument, if extended, will probably lead to the conclusion that the US invasion of Afghanistan was alright because it freed the Afghan nation from the clutches of the Taliban. Underlining this argument is a mute admission that the Afghans weren’t able to bring about a political change themselves, and that as a consequence warranted a US military intervention.
So much for a good, foreign education!
March 6, 2009 at 10:49 am
@ writer
It seems that you have habit of lieing, guess following the footsteps of Hitlers Information Minister who was the famouse lair of all time.
Kindly tell only 2 names of lawyers burnt by MQM.
This is my open challenge to you, and if you can’t name them you should apologies for your lies.
March 6, 2009 at 11:29 am
I AM COPYING BELOW EXCERPTS FROM THE NEWS REPORTS OF NEXT DAY’S DAWN AND THE NEWS.
Six lawyers burnt alive in Karachi
Two women among those killed in building housing lawyers’ chambers; five others die in city violence; rival lawyers clash
The News
April 10, 2008
By Salis bin Perwaiz
KARACHI: Eleven people were killed, at least six of them feared to be lawyers, and several others injured when violence broke out in various parts of the city following a clash between two groups of lawyers outside the City Courts on Wednesday afternoon.
The most horrifying incident took place at Tahir Plaza, where six charred bodies including those of two women were recovered. The police said that the six bodies were of lawyers. The rioters also torched around 50 vehicles in different parts of the metropolis.
The clash between the lawyers at the City Court left eight members of the MQM Legal Aid Committee injured, who were taken to the Civil Hospital. They were identified as Javed Hashmi, Aurangzeb, Shagufta Ijaz and others. Soon after, violence gripped the city, with masked armed men roaming around firing in the air and torching vehicles.
There was unprecedented violence in the vicinity of the City Courts, where unidentified miscreants locked the main gate of the Tahir Plaza, situated opposite the courts. There are more than 200 offices of lawyers in the building. The miscreants opened indiscriminate fire at the building and later set it ablaze.
AND NOW FROM DAWN.
The five people who were burnt beyond recognition were trapped for four hours inside Tahir Plaza, a building near the City Courts housing lawyers’ offices. “We had to break the lock to enter the room and during search we found the charred bodies.”
Fives bodies were recovered from the sixth floor, where Aftab Abbasi, an advocate, had an office.
AND FRANKLY SPEAKING, I AM IMPRESSED BY THE WAY YOU THREW THE CHALLENGE — ALL THE CORPSES WERE INDEED BURNT BEYOND RECOGNITION, EXCEPT ONE AS SUGGESTED BY THE NEWS REPORT.
SO THAT EXONERATES THE MQM FROM THE CHARGE, RIGHT?
March 8, 2009 at 5:47 am
I am baffled that educated people of Karachi can only take an X-cabbie as a leader?
Kaloo is a parasite and a traitor; for starting the ethnically supercharged political environment in our lovely city Karachi.
Last thing I want to hear is ignorant people talking about greatest scarify made by people of Karachi in 1947. It was Punjabis coming across the border who got slaughtered; educated Indian Muslims, that now Kaloo seems to tell every one he belongs to, came on the boat. You ignorant, parasitical morons go read your history; you cell phone snatchers!
Kaloo is in state of paranoia and is an incidental learner; he does not seem to get it right the first time:
He starts a party MQM calls it Muhajir movement (I dare to disagree with this term – what about others who migrated and did not speak Urdu? Are they not Muhajir; who gave Kalo the authority to reduce sons and daughters of finest Muslims of India who moved from India to be called Muhair for rest of their life; even after their sons and daughters have born in Pakistan? ).
Then kaloo learns it’s not flying well with everyone nationally or internationally, kalo tries to fit in and changes with is decree to Mutahida. I truly believe it Mustaqill Quomi Musibet!
From the 83’s onwards a truly peaceful city and its people have been stuck with the fool! I want to know who killed Azeem Tariq; Hakeem Saeed and other nobilities. Who threatens living nobilities like Edhi? Who reduces a well trained and groomed (Musharaf) brave national hero an army general to an Urdu speaking only general, an ethnic hero?
I firmly believe that when people can not see beyond their feet they can not get much far, and this is the story of MQM. They are as much to blame of current Pakistani mess as are the Taliban and any other kind of mafia. What was the judgment of the Canadian court?
We will take Karachi (Pakistan Juggler v) back from kalo and his thugs. Remember, when you have small dreams you become a small person/nation. To achieve big things you have to dream big and that includes thinking beyond ethnicity.
Long live Pakistan; Log live Karachi!
Kaloo murdaba
Watch the truth: How people been kept hostage!
March 11, 2009 at 6:28 am
I have posted a mini review of ‘Agamemnon’s Daughter’ by the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare. Do take a look. Kadare won the Man Booker Prize in 2005.