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Karachi, today, is a violent urban jungle with an assortment of lowlifes keeping the population hostage to their bastardly instincts. Consider the list of culprits.
There are the scions of Baloch and Sindhi sardars and waderas who move around in SUVs with guards brandishing weapons (note that they do so because their elders are bigger scum, thank you). Then there are the children of the urban rich who, having failed to instil urban values in the sardars and waderas, have adopted the latter’s rural-medieval mindset. There are crooked politicians, their guards, political storm troopers; criminal gangs, ranging from thieves and robbers to land grabbers to extortionists and murderers to hired guns; cops on the take; a government split along ethnic lines; anyone who can rent a gun and settle a score. Finally, add to this list the Taliban terrorists and sectarian killers and you have, dear non-Karachi-ite reader, what is Karachi.
At the centre of this is the majority of Karachi-ites, resigned to their fate, living from day to day, a terrified, terrible existence.
Nothing I’ve said in the preceding paragraph will surprise Karachi-ites. Karachi was not always like this but that’s another story. For now, this is about what it has become.
Some of where (and how) Karachi became this hell is contained in a long-forgotten report by a commission Mr Nawaz Sharif had set up in the 90s under one General Shafiqur Rehman. This was the time the Marwat brothers were running amok. My friend Mazhar Abbas, a journalist of high merit, who has seen Karachi go to the dogs (or seen dogs come to Karachi, whichever way one puts it) tells me that the then chief minister of Sindh, Jam Sadiq Ali, would not provide security to the commission. They were holed up at the Sheraton and people deposed before them in the hotel. Still, the report is worth a read.
Extortion is common practice. Speak to businessmen and shopkeepers in the city and one realises the extent of the menace. People of all ethnicities and political affiliations are involved in it. A very senior journalist who constructed a house in Gulistan-e Jauhar received a call from the Baloch Aman Committee and the caller, after congratulating him on the new house, demanded that he pay up Rs100,000 to ensure safe living in his home.
The journalist went to the Sindh governor, the Sindh CM, the IG Police, the CPLC, PFUJ, KUJ, the Presidency, you name it. Result: zip, zilch and zero. He locked his home and has shifted to Islamabad. The man has a home in Karachi and he is living in a rented house. Welcome to Karachi.
I asked Sheheryar Mirza, a young, freelance journalist, what the hell is going on. He had more stories to tell. A police officer said the police could clean up the city if only “we were given a free hand”. What does ‘free hand’ mean, I asked Mirza. “In the case of Karachi, it means that police officers will be allied with whoever is in power and their master’s enemies will bear the full brunt of police’s coercive power.”
So, the answer is not just giving a free hand to the police but creating a professional force that is politically neutral and whose work cannot be hampered by politically influential individuals. “They know, for the most part, what is going on,” says Mazhar, adding: “See, how quickly they have rounded up the accused in Shahzeb Khan’s murder case with the SC’s backing.”
The young man’s murder was what got me talking to people. Karachi has seen many killings. But for the most part they are either politically motivated, are the result of extortion and land grabbing, or are owed to terrorism. These menaces have come to define the city, unfortunately. But what about the upscale localities of Clifton and Defence; why are they insecure?
That is where the ‘respectable’ scum come in, treating citizens like serfs, driving around with guards, drunk, partying, picking up girls and very often raping and dumping them. “Why are such cases under-reported,” I asked a friend. Because, he said, people are afraid. These families are influential and killing a human being for them is like swatting a fly. Even if a case is reported, the rich and influential criminals never get punished.
And the government? There is no government. Karachi has political factions, even within the ruling coalition. The home department is dysfunctional. Zulfiqar Mirza, who huffed and puffed about security and governance, patronised criminals in Lyari. According to some estimates, he issued licences for some 400,000 weapons. We are, of course, told no weapons licences will be given until the elections. Is someone frikkin’ kidding us?
Shakir Husain, entrepreneur and writer, says it’s not just the feudal families that act like this. “This is a mindset. They break traffic rules, drive people off the roads; they can get away with anything.”
Some people are buying guns and acquiring guards as deterrence. The trend will continue. Those who bend will crouch and take it lying down. Those who say enough will also get into the killing game. Because what else can one do, living with constant indignities and governmental apathy, but take the war to the lowlifes, whether they reside inside or outside the government?
The police are not only corrupt and criminalised but also lacks manpower, equipment, investigation skills and professional integrity and independence.
This is a recipe for disaster in Pakistan’s financial hub. To imagine that the Sindh government and, by extension, the federal government can mount effective counterterrorism operations in a city that the vermin of all types hold by the short and curlies is to try and find one straight bone in Rana Sanaullah.
Karachi needs to be cleansed; from upper crust pests residing in upscale localities as much as from the thugs holed up in Orangi, Lyari and elsewhere. It needs political commitment and an effective police and civil administration. This is obvious. The question is, how.
You want to know when a system has become totally dysfunctional? It is when the highest court in the land has to take suo-motu notice of a murder case because the nation is being ruled by criminals.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 9th, 2013.
 
these guys(writers) dont even live in karachi but most of these negative articles come from these non karachi guys, whats the reason, karachi is not as half bad as they make karachi to be
 
these guys(writers) dont even live in karachi but most of these negative articles come from these non karachi guys, whats the reason, karachi is not as half bad as they make karachi to be

it is WORSE than you think it is! tell me a city with daily atleast 3 target killings? extortion mobile theft,bhatta mafia NO WHERE except karachi.

even quetta has less target killings then karachi! maybe even indian held kashmir has less daily killings!
 
it is WORSE than you think it is! tell me a city with daily atleast 3 target killings? extortion mobile theft,bhatta mafia NO WHERE except karachi.

even quetta has less target killings then karachi! maybe even indian held kashmir has less daily killings!

dont tell me what goes on in karachi, i live in karachi and my family lives in karachi

Karachi has problem, but in very few under developed parts of karachi, most of the karachi is safe, but media shows as if karachi is a hell, like the title suggests

if karachi is hell then who takes care of entire country? if karachi was hell, the hell hole karachi keeps pakistan standing and running
 
LOL outsiders telling us how life is in Karachi. Karachi even with it's "problems" is still running the country's economy. Remember if Karachi is f*cked then Pakistan is double f*cked. And please these "target killings" are overly exaggerated. Karachi has a population of over 20 million people and recently the number of murders have gone up thanks to outsiders (many of them taliban) fleeing to Karachi, so like 1500 murders. Rio de Janeiro, the city that will hold the FIFA world cup and Olympics has over 4000 murders yearly and that is a city of 6 million people. Most of the killings in Khi happened on the outskirts of the city. With that being said Karachi's crime is still a huge problem and has increased dramatically in the past couple of years thanks to some groups.
 
Violence in Karachi claims 13 lives | Pakistan | DAWN.COM

Firing by unknown gunmen killed two persons and injured another near Qauid-i-Azam’s mausoleum on Monday morning.

In another incident a man was killed in Sohrab Goth area of Karachi.

A political party activist and a two-year-old child were gunned down in News Karachi’s Sector 5-J.

A body bearing torture marks was found near Dua hotel on Mauripur road in Karachi’s Lyar area.

Two more persons were killed in Bakra Piri and Musa Lane area of Lyari.

Another person was shot to death in Surjani town area.

An eight-year-old child was killed after he was hit by a stray bullet in Orangi town area of Karachi.

Another man was murdered in Mehran town in Karachi’s Korangi area.

Two people, including a political party worker, were killed and another was injured in separate incidents of firing in New Karachi’s Sector 5-J and 5-E.

Firing by rival drug dealing gangs injured six children in Orangi town’s New Mianwali area.

Moreover, police arrested four suspected robbers within the remit of Sir Syed police station and claimed to have recovered stolen mobile phones and weapons from the suspects.
 
What's wrong in another person talking about Karachi?

Since when did it become a crime to highlight the issues we face everyday? Sure, some of the article is exagerrated, but the idea of concern over our city's well-being is more than welcome.
 
LOL outsiders telling us how life is in Karachi. Karachi even with it's "problems" is still running the country's economy. Remember if Karachi is f*cked then Pakistan is double f*cked. And please these "target killings" are overly exaggerated. Karachi has a population of over 20 million people and recently the number of murders have gone up thanks to outsiders (many of them taliban) fleeing to Karachi, so like 1500 murders. Rio de Janeiro, the city that will hold the FIFA world cup and Olympics has over 4000 murders yearly and that is a city of 6 million people. Most of the killings in Khi happened on the outskirts of the city. With that being said Karachi's crime is still a huge problem and has increased dramatically in the past couple of years thanks to some groups.
You do realize that showing demons with added Mirch Masala, in neighborhood makes people think that at least the demons in their own area are not that bad.

I personally think that the unrest is created by other political parties to bring down the trust on party that has strong hold in Karachi. After all like you said, Karachi drives the economy and every one wants to have the front seat but for that they have to make the driver look like drunkard so that people throw him out and give the steering to some other person.

Unfortunately, it happens everywhere. Karachi just provide these news paper constant dose of similar news and they can publish more articles with same words jumbled up here and there.
 
Karachi is a representation of what is wrong with overall Pakistan.
Corruption, Fedualism, Extremism, and all the bad -ism one can find.
 
Karachi is a representation of what is wrong with overall Pakistan.
Corruption, Fedualism, Extremism, and all the bad -ism one can find.

I sure did wish someone would slap 90% of our journalists! They need to wake up and keep their species in their cooking! :blink:
 
it is WORSE than you think it is! tell me a city with daily atleast 3 target killings? extortion mobile theft,bhatta mafia NO WHERE except karachi.

even quetta has less target killings then karachi! maybe even indian held kashmir has less daily killings!

As far kashmir is concerned most of dead are usually terrorist or indian forces.These days civilans casulty occuring due to people getting caught in the cross fire have dropped down to almost zero.

Why isn't the army doing anything to stop all this stuff going on karachi ?
Probably they want MQM decimated and so that they can rule all over karachi through pashtoon backed parties.
 
The situation in Karachi, albeit unacceptable is not as volatile as is generally portrayed, the culprit is our newly enlightened media.
It's become so liberal that if even a disgruntled son-in-law, chops off his mother-in-law's Nose, the news gets beamed into our living rooms.
 
The situation in Karachi, albeit unacceptable is not as volatile as is generally portrayed, the culprit is our newly enlightened media.
It's become so liberal that if even a disgruntled son-in-law, chops off his mother-in-law's Nose, the news gets beamed into our living rooms.
Like I said. Karachi with its population and violence provides fodder to these news agencies.

Either just stay in one city Karachi to get more crime stories, or compile crime stories all around a region with many cities and same number of population but much more crime stories. Any person will chose first option.
 
Totally right , all these BS is just media proganda. The traquility and peace of karachi can probably be only rivalled with that of Peace and sakun of Jannat.

Last time i checked folks here in karachi were using rocket launcher to settle their scores.

sir its the same in karachi like mumbai and dehli compared as rape capitals of the world
 
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