Bhatta collecting was never ever party policy from day 1 ... Infact they collected donations ... I myself collected donation mannerly in early 90's ... We strictly restricted to collect donations forcibly ... But some be lagam ghoray did this ... And due to those culprits party got denigrated ...
Can you tell me one voice of any merchant of Karachi who raised against MQM to demanding extortion....?????????
Try asking around in Saddar, specifically electronic market about it.. and people will tell you.
Nobody raises a voice because there is no one to listen to.. the police is with MQM..and if you do tell someone.. your health deteriorates.
You are trying to defend something that is a given for the party. Instead of trying to clean up the slate you should focus on how effective MQM has actually been in terms of its development for the areas it controlled.. NO PARTY..and No party at all has beaten it in terms of delivering say whatever its detractors may.
Even now, the much dramatized Na-250 seat by the PTI wallahs(which was essentially a default win since the other parties boycotted it which was NOT JUST the MQM) Dr Arif sahab has done nothing so far.
There are people in that Azam Basti and Dehli colony area who were expecting water after these elections.. except nothing happened. Previously the MQM party workers were called and would arrange water for these people. Now they are left without water high and dry since Dr Sahab has little power to move or coerce the water tanker mafia. So now those people come to MQM offices and beg for water since the PTI guys are too busy floating like butterflies with the DHA crowd(specifically Ph IV, V, VI) who do not have water issues as bad as the rest and those that do already have the DHA providing such services. The reality of Pakistani politics as to be accepted to understand how to fix it, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Where the MQM is badmash, they have delivered. That is the only difference between these Badmash and the badmash of the rest of the country