Karachi: Zulfiqar Mirza's statement triggers another round of violence

[American Pakistani]

I thought you can do better than that. A very lame reply which shows you cannot defend this runaway.

Oh yea you go ahead & save than. You asked me, i replied you, you like it or not, not my concern.

 

[Ajaxpaul]

KARACHI: Awami National Party Sindh chapter president Shahi Syed claimed on Friday that 25 ANP workers, including office-bearers, had been killed in terrorist attacks over the past three days of violence in the city.​

Speaking at a news conference, the ANP provincial chief condemned the recent wave of violence and called for ridding the city of weapons.
He blamed the Muttahida Quami Movement for the violence over the past three days, saying that it seemed as if the government had no authority.

Mr Syed said that terrorists had been continuing their violent acts and killing people in the name of Pakhtuns and Mohajirs. He asked as to who was behind the killings in Orangi Town where people had been made hostage in their homes.

He regretted that people had been targeted and killed and buses were burnt and houses attacked by terrorist elements to promote their political interests.

Mr Syed alleged that these elements wanted to destabilise Karachi and subsequently the country by creating disturbances. He asked the ANP workers not to get provoked and to thwart attempts of those who wanted to destroy the peace of Karachi.

He said: “Anybody who is against peace is inhuman.” He said that no institution, including Rangers, could restore peace to the city unless it was given full powers.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/07/09/25-anp-workers-killed-in-violence.html

 

[Nothing4U]

MQM Deputy Convener Dr. Farooq Sattar while addressing a press conference after simultaneous meetings MQM’s Coordination Committee London and Karachi.

“MQM strongly opposes and rejects the revival of Commissionerate System in Sindh and it will go to courts and people to raise its voice against the dictatorial step,” he said, adding the government’s decision will also be challenged and opposed in the National and provincial assemblies.

He termed the restoration of Commissionerate System by the government as a conspiracy to deprive the people of their basic rights and aimed only at strengthening the existing feudal system across the country.

He went on to say that the CS system negatives the very norms and spirit of democracy.

Comparing the CS system with the local government set up, Dr. Farooq Sattar said the LG system ensured transfer of power to the grass roots level and offered a best way to resolve people’s issues by public representatives with direct access to citizens.

Democracies all over the world have been making a successful use local government system.

He said the Commissionerate System was first enforced in British colonial era and only protected the interests of two percent elites. Now this system is non-existent even in Britain, he added.

Anees Qaimkhani says MQM would challenge the government’s decision in all the courts and strongly oppose it in National and provincial assemblies

“It is an attempt to break Pakistan and to divide Sindh and Karachi, it is a conspiracy against Sindi and Urdu speaking communities,” he maintained.

MQM to challenge commissionerate system at every level

HERE WE GO!!! no MORE MUTHAIDA we are back to the "muhajir card" from MQM just wait & see ANP will follow soon on its muhajir drama!

the guy is pointing the negative role of PPP which is supporting ANP, understand that

 

[Crown Prince]

@ crown prince, You are receiving the bodies of innocents in Quetta.

We have also received bodies of our friends from Quetta who were going to Iran for Ziaraat, but your beloved ones attacked their bus leaving many dead and numerous injured. Can you tell me the reason why?

You cannot drive the vehicle in Quetta having number plate of any city of Punjab. My friend was posted in Quetta (Army) he had Lahore number car, he called me to tell the number of my car, and he used my number on his car as long as he remained posted there.

Can you explain why you kill people other than pashtuns, especially punjabis??

Bus going to Iran was attached by LeJ and they also proclaimed responsibility of the incident. Secondly, its not fact that number plates of other cities are targeted in quetta. India is completely involved in Balochistan insurgency in collaboration with Afghanistan. But target killing is controlled in the province to a greater extent. Local people also uses vehicles registered from Karachi and Lahore and its wrong that such vehicles are targeted.

 

[Crown Prince]

Actually Sindh's elites(waderas & jageerdars) force the poor interior Sindh rural peoples to vote for PPP, those poor peoples are under fake debts of these waderas. After coming to power all PPP thugs gets benifit when PPP loot national funds. Budget for Sindh(which comes due to huge revenues of Karachi alone) is eaten by these waderas & Karachi a huge city gets very less funds. During Musharraf era there was very less corruption & Karachi gets it's right share so you can see the progress of Karachi during Musharraf rule.
Just look at our big institutions like Railways,PIA,SteelMills etc they have been looted since PPP came into power & they are towards their destruction.

Karachi & Hyderabad whose population is free from all these wadera controls & is educated enough to know about good & bad votes literates like MQM or Musharraf or maybe PTI, rest of Sindh interior votes for PPP for above mentioned reasons so i think MQM doesn't have enough to go alone.

Good approach but biased one. If waderas force people to vote for PPP similarly MQM forces urban population with terror and AK-47 otherwise bullet riddled bodies will be found if they are gone against the will of MQM. it is a rogue political party and uses force and fear to support political agenda.

There will be no majority of MQM if there is fair and transparent election. There will be no clear majority in karachi which MQM is getting now but dint of their force and terrorism.

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

Killing must be such fun!

 

[Crown Prince]

Peshawar has ANP, PPP, PML N and has a diverse population of Pashtuns, Hazarawals, Punjabis, etc.

DI Khan has ANP, PPP, PML N and a diverse population of Pashtuns, Baloch, Seraikis, etc.

Lahore has PML N, PPP, PML Q and a diverse population of Punjabis, Urdu-speaking people, Pashtuns, etc.

Islamabad has many parties and a mix of Punjabis, Pashtuns and many others.

But in all of these cities, we don't find any ethnic killing or ethnic hatred. If ANP, PPP, PML-N/Q were supporters of ethnic strife, they would engage in such activities wherever they existed.

Then what is it about Karachi that doesn't exist in these other areas? The unique factor about Karachi is what's creating all this havoc.

MQM is like Israel. Israelis kill innocent Palestinians and then go around the whole world crying about how they're the victims of the Holocaust and of 'Islamic' terrorism. In Karachi, MQM kills unarmed and innocent Pashtun laborers and watchmen and then goes on the media crying about how they're discriminated against and how they're targeted and what not.

 

[v9s]

Peshawar has ANP, PPP, PML N and has a diverse population of Pashtuns, Hazarawals, Punjabis, etc.

DI Khan has ANP, PPP, PML N and a diverse population of Pashtuns, Baloch, Seraikis, etc.

Lahore has PML N, PPP, PML Q and a diverse population of Punjabis, Urdu-speaking people, Pashtuns, etc.

Islamabad has many parties and a mix of Punjabis, Pashtuns and many others.

But in all of these cities, we don't find any ethnic killing or ethnic hatred. If ANP, PPP, PML-N/Q were supporters of ethnic strife, they would engage in such activities wherever they existed.

Then what is it about Karachi that doesn't exist in these other areas? The unique factor about Karachi is what's creating all this havoc.

MQM is like Israel. Israelis kill innocent Palestinians and then go around the whole world crying about how they're the victims of the Holocaust and of 'Islamic' terrorism. In Karachi, MQM kills unarmed and innocent Pashtun laborers and watchmen and then goes on the media crying about how they're discriminated against and how they're targeted and what not.

Ugh.

Stop being so simplistic and naive

 

[Nothing4U]

Peshawar has ANP, PPP, PML N and has a diverse population of Pashtuns, Hazarawals, Punjabis, etc.

DI Khan has ANP, PPP, PML N and a diverse population of Pashtuns, Baloch, Seraikis, etc.

Lahore has PML N, PPP, PML Q and a diverse population of Punjabis, Urdu-speaking people, Pashtuns, etc.

Islamabad has many parties and a mix of Punjabis, Pashtuns and many others.

But in all of these cities, we don't find any ethnic killing or ethnic hatred. If ANP, PPP, PML-N/Q were supporters of ethnic strife, they would engage in such activities wherever they existed.

Then what is it about Karachi that doesn't exist in these other areas? The unique factor about Karachi is what's creating all this havoc.

MQM is like Israel. Israelis kill innocent Palestinians and then go around the whole world crying about how they're the victims of the Holocaust and of 'Islamic' terrorism. In Karachi, MQM kills unarmed and innocent Pashtun laborers and watchmen and then goes on the media crying about how they're discriminated against and how they're targeted and what not.

there are insignificant population of other ethnicities in the cities you mention, in karachi, its almost the equal case, urdu speakers are not in majority over all, urdu speakers are like 40% of the pop, rest in non urdu speaker, the majority in them in pashtun which is 30% and rest 30% are punjabis, seraikis, balochis, kashmiris and sindhis, all possible ethnicities are present in karachi, you name it, brahvi, hazara, swati, gilgit, baltistani, etc etc

but in lahore its like 90% is punjabi, and rest 10% are seriakies, pashtuns and very few urdu speakers, no baloch no sindhi, very few kashmiris

on islamabad though i agree it diverse, but still islamabad is not as populated and not has economically beneficial as karachi, also islamabad is a federal territory, karachi is a city in sindh

 

[Dance]

Let’s get it right: it’s not just the military-mullah alliance (or the US and India) that pulls Pakistan down. There are also those who bury their necks in the sand when voted into power and cry murder when thrown out of it. Take the mainstream political parties which break no taboos when in power, set nothing right when they can, but flag their victimhood when they are booted out. Why do the PPP and the PML-N so readily come to mind?

Despite its repeated, rhetorical commitment to democracy, the PPP has something roguish in its working as a ruling party. Within the party the tendency towards autocracy at the very top leaves little room for dissent, while working with its coalition partners it exercises a hegemonic unilateralism when it comes to sharing power or even decision making. Take the recent case of the party’s fallout with the MQM, which commands the urban vote in Sindh and deserves by virtue of its mandate to exercise some power. This, the MQM got in the form of running the city government in Karachi. The ceremonial post of the governor, with no real executive powers vested in him, meant little for the MQM.

The abolition of the local government system and its replacement with the colonial-time commissionerate system has nothing remotely democratic about it. It is a naked mechanism for controlling urban Sindh by a ruling party that does not command an urban vote bank, and hence it resorts to undemocratic means by keeping those out of the power equation who do have an urban democratic mandate. The MQM’s City District Government, Karachi was very popular with the people because it delivered on its promises and served the city well. To abolish the system just to spite the MQM will further alienate Karachi residents from the policies of the PPP. It will increase political polarisation and may result in blood-letting, as recent clashes and killings in Karachi have shown.

The PPP has done what it did with its eyes set on the next election. Because of utter lack of governance, the PPP’s approval ratings have been far from envious even in its home base of rural Sindh. The party’s vociferous former home minister had said that the party would use the Sindh card as and when it deemed fit. Now a strategy has been devised to pit the Sindhis against non-Sindhis in Karachi in the hope that doing so would boast the PPP’s Sindhi credentials and win it the popular vote from rural Sindh — the same rural Sindh where the party’s MPs do not allow schools to function or roads and communication infrastructure to be built.

The dubious logic at work is that a deprived Sindh has historically worked to the PPP’s electoral advantage, so keep the status quo; let no winds of change or development reach the deep and dark recesses of the rural hinterland. The utterly impoverished peasantry is thus restricted to hand-me-down stipends, literally pittance, named after the party’s slain leaders; for instance, the Benazir Income Support Programme and the like schemes. As for the Sindh cities, because they are not the party’s electoral stronghold and given the PPP’s record, they cannot expect any major development work taking place there either.

The PPP could have turned Lyari around but it has done nothing even for that district from where it has been winning elections all these years. And this is happening at a time when the devolution of many powers from the federation to the provinces has increased the financial resources available with the Sindh government considerably. No brownie points for guessing where the big money will go.

The party also has another sorry legacy, one of ‘divide and rule’. Many can argue that it did so in the case of East Pakistan also; but let’s call it ancient history now because it cannot be altered. The PPP has practically done so in Punjab by pitting Seraikis against Punjabis to spite the Sharifs (no angels themselves); but long before that in Punjab, the party spearheaded the movement to declare Ahmadis non-Muslim, and thus created a minority where none had existed before (this again was done with a view to win more votes from Punjab); it was also the PPP government of Mr. Bhutto that declared Friday as the weekly holiday and banned liquor to appease the religious right; Gen Zia through his controversial Islamisation process only built on what the PPP had started.

In Balochistan today, just to woo the khakis, it is the PPP’s ruling MPs versus their nationalist Baloch brethren whom the state and intelligence agencies continue to hound, virtually kidnapping and torturing the dissidents who conveniently keep going ‘missing’; the rest are forced to flee or to go underground; Balochistan remains virtually under siege. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, since there aren’t many spoils to be collected in these bad times, the PPP has mercifully left the ANP alone so far; in Sindh, now by alienating the urban population, the party has broadened the rural-urban divide rather than bridging it.

Will such roguish policies win the party more votes in the next election? Probably yes. Will snubbing the US, holding it responsible for our economic woes and bad law and order, and oppressing the Baloch win the party the confidence of the armed forces? The lesson the PPP has not learnt is that if Mr. Bhutto, who also carried out a military operation in Balochistan and resurrected a demoralised army after it had lost half the country, could not pull it, no lesser mortal in the party’s fold is up to the job.

The roguish in the PPP | Blog | DAWN.COM

 

[THE MASK]

City tensed again

 

[Evil Flare]

PPP wants the destruction of karachi so karachites should persue for their own province in order to get rid PPP MAFIA .

 

[Dance]

Thanks to "Dr" zulfiqar mirza, violence has started in Karachi again

 

[Dance]

Its amazing that this party is still popular after all the harm they have caused Pakistan

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Its amazing that this party is still popular after all the harm they have caused Pakistan

Is it though?

Most polls/analysts suggest that the party is losing support even in interior Sindh -nationwide the party is polling pretty low.

The only way the PPP will retain power is through exploiting the parliamentary/feudal/biradri system and vote politics.

Once can only hope that the military can ensure a free and fair election, and that Pakistanis come out in droves to vote out this monstrosity called the PPP - for that matter, vote out the PML-N as well, they have nothing much to boast about in governing Punjab either.