Pervaiz,

There are more than enough issues in the present for us to get side-lined by MQM breast-beating. MQM people talk too much – about all that is good about them and all that is bad about other Pakistanis. I don’t know what was true or not about Jinnahpur. Whether true or not, I accept what Askari Naqvi says about the tragedies of families being split up. However, it is rubbish to compare it to WMD in Iraq, for many reasons, one of which is that Iraq was a sovereign country, while Karachi is not under the sovereign jurisdiction of MQM. I’ve heard many MQM followers in Karachi say that Karachi is just for “Muhajirs” and other Pakistanis should get out of it. I’ve also heard many MQM supporters say that only MQM is entitled to represent “Muhajirs”. In other words, many supporters of MQM are bigots & deeply sectarian.             

What I do know is that MQM hooligans (and they have many hooligans, in addition to intellectuals) had made life hell for residents of Karachi. MQM is run in a mafia fashion by Altaf Hussain, who has terrorized (& got murdered) his own people. He publicly said in India that the creation of Pakistan was the “biggest blunder in the history of mankind”, and begged India to take back “Mujahirs”. While I have no interest in getting into a debate on the problem with MQM, FoTH members who are subjected to MQM breast-beating should have a look at the video below: 

Altaf Hussain calls creation of Pakistan “the biggest blunder in the history of mankind”

Masud

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