MQM all the way. Only one that wants to tax the agriculturists and fight the talibs. they have my vote any day of the weak.
Not that I am against taxing the industrialists and agriculturists, but to set the record straight, MQM is more than willing to tax them because it does not draw its vote bank from these two segments of the society.
If MQM was really sincere to its agenda, Pakistan, and Karachi in specific, it would not have supported the reinstatement of the 4500+ employees sacked by the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation .We damn the KESC all the time for being inefficient, but when they tried to lay off the unproductive workers to increase their efficiency, we make KESC look like a monster.
We have heard numerous times from MQM that Karachi is the heart of Pakistan, and its industries need to function properly for the economy to grow, and the one thing that is severely hampering the performance of these industries is shortage of electricity. The KESC was trying to minimize its losses to curb that shortage which cripples the Pakistani economy, but MQM jumped in to play its politics. Most of the sacked 4500+ workers were political workers and rarely showed up to work. They were given jobs during Musharraf's era, when MQM had full control over Karachi. Even after that, they were not being laid off just like that, but were offered a $101m in cash and investment certificates.
I really fail to understand how and why MQM would act any different in the future, when it would need the votes and support of these very industrialists and agriculturists. If MQM can not act in the favor of one city i.e Karachi, to which it owes all the political clout that it holds today, I wonder what its antics will be in the rest of the country. MQM is no different than all the other parties in the government today whose supreme goal is to serve themselves, and nobody else.
In the wise words of Abe Lincoln,"
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." I'll be damned if I am fooled again.
