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Remain committed even if I am arrested
Bakray ko churian nazar ana shuru ho gaie hain :D
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^ i hope it happens before Eid, at least people will have freedom about "khaaal", both theirs' and their bakra's/bail's
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end is nigh?
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Karachi and karachites became an abnormal commodity after 84 , when this all politics of terrorism and bloodbath started ...
Once and IF it ends...this way or any other way .....and Karachi becomes somewhat normal ....which I highly doubt ...because of the emergence of many other players on the scene...following their footsteps of intimidation and terror.., as a successful recipe of control .. ..even then...supposing it does ...after his end..... and Karachi becomes somewhat normal....even then...it will take around 10-15 years of normal existence for a Karachite to become a normal citizen of a normal city...
so far its only the hidden resilience of its citizen ..which have allowed it to survive so far..
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Karachi and karachites became an abnormal commodity after 84 , when this all politics of terrorism and bloodbath started ...
Once and IF it ends...this way or any other way .....and Karachi becomes somewhat normal ....which I highly doubt ...because of the emergence of many other players on the scene...following their footsteps of intimidation and terror.., as a successful recipe of control .. ..even then...supposing it does ...after his end..... and Karachi becomes somewhat normal....even then...it will take around 10-15 years of normal existence for a Karachite to become a normal citizen of a normal city...
so far its only the hidden resilience of its citizen ..which have allowed it to survive so far..
There will be marked change in Karachi politics if Bhai and his cronies are arrested. To go after other criminals is not difficult as compared to mqm cult criminals hiding in rats' holes. Once bhai is arrested the mqm will crumble down like dust, which will result in start of cool breeze blowing from Arabian Ocean as in the past all over Karachi.
Many criminals are employed in Karachi police belonging to mqm and other parties including 'maut ke saudagar'. They should be tried and sent to jails. Induct young and fresh college graduate with no police experience. Give them perfect training including moral training with salaries commensurate with present day prices. Induct locals as many as possible no importing from other provinces.
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Mohajir Militancy , criminalized the Mohajir youth , and it was deliberately made a thing of pride …based on the myths of many things…
some excepts with comments on Nicola Khan’s book " Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan "
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There will be marked change in Karachi politics if Bhai and his cronies are arrested. To go after other criminals is not difficult as compared to mqm cult criminals hiding in rats' holes. Once bhai is arrested the mqm will crumble down like dust, *which will result in start of cool breeze blowing from Arabian Ocean as in the past all over Karachi. *
Many criminals are employed in Karachi police belonging to mqm and other parties including 'maut ke saudagar'. They should be tried and sent to jails. Induct young and fresh college graduate with no police experience. Give them perfect training including moral training with salaries commensurate with present day prices. Induct locals as many as possible no importing from other provinces.
We can only hope and wish so but now seeing the rise of bhatta-or-death on the rise from non-MQM gangsters the operation against criminals will need to be much more wider and stronger.
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LONDON — For two decades, Altaf Hussain has run his brutal Pakistani political empire by remote control, shrouded in luxurious exile in London and long beyond the reach of the law.
He follows events through satellite televisions in his walled-off home, manages millions of dollars in assets and issues decrees in ranting teleconferences that last for hours — all to command a network of influence and intimidation that stretches from North America to South Africa.
This global system serves a very localized goal: perpetuating Mr. Hussain’s reign as the political king of Karachi, the brooding port city of 20 million people at the heart of Pakistan’s economy.
“Distance does not matter,” reads the inscription on a monument near Mr. Hussain’s deserted former house in Karachi, where his name evokes both fear and favor.
Now, though, his painstakingly constructed web is fraying.
A British murder investigation has been closing in on Mr. Hussain, 59, and his party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. His London home and offices have been raided, and the police have opened new investigations into accusations of money laundering and inciting violence in Pakistan.
The scrutiny has visibly rattled Mr. Hussain, who recently warned supporters that his arrest may be imminent. And in Karachi, it has raised a previously unthinkable question: Is the end near for the untouchable political machine that has been the city’s linchpin for three decades?
“This is a major crisis,” said Irfan Husain, the author of “Fatal Faultlines,” a book about Pakistan’s relationship with the United States. “The party has been weakened, and Altaf Hussain is being criticized like never before.”
Mr. Hussain’s rise offers a striking illustration of the political melee in Pakistan.
His support stems from the Mohajirs, Urdu-speaking Muslims whose families moved to Pakistan after the partition from India in 1947, and who make up about half of Karachi’s population. Since the 1980s, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement has fiercely defended Mohajir interests, and in turn it has been carried to victory in almost every election and to an enduring place in national coalition governments as well.
Mr. Hussain fled to London in 1992, when the movement was engaged in a vicious street battle with the central government for supremacy in Karachi. The British government granted him political asylum and, 10 years later, a British passport.
London has long been the antechamber of Pakistani politics, where self-exiled leaders take refuge until they can return. The former military ruler Pervez Musharraf lived here until recently, and the current prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, lived here until 2007.
Mr. Hussain, however, shows no sign of going back. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has an office in Edgware, in northwest London. But these days Mr. Hussain is mostly at home, in a redbrick suburban house protected by raised walls, security cameras and a contingent of former British soldiers he has hired as bodyguards.
From there, he holds court, addressing his faraway followers in a vigorous, sometimes maniacal style, punctuated by jabbing gestures and hectoring outbursts. Occasionally he bursts into song, or tears. Yet, on the other end of the line, it is not unusual to find tens of thousands of people crowded into a Karachi street, listening raptly before an empty stage containing Mr. Hussain’s portrait, as his disembodied voice booms from speakers.
“The cult of personality surrounding Altaf Hussain is quite extraordinary,” said Farzana Shaikh, an academic and the author of “Making Sense of Pakistan.” “He is immensely charismatic, in the way one thinks of the great fascist leaders of the 20th century.”
In Karachi, his overwhelmingly middle-class party is fronted by sharply dressed, well-spoken men — and a good number of women — and it has won a reputation for efficient city administration. But beneath the surface, its mandate is backed by armed gangs involved in racketeering, abduction and the targeted killings of ethnic and political rivals, the police and diplomats say.
Other major Pakistani parties indulge in similar behavior, but the Muttahida Qaumi Movement frequently brings the most muscle to the fight. An American diplomatic cable from 2008 titled “Gangs of Karachi,” which was published by WikiLeaks, cited estimates that the party had an active militia of 10,000 gunmen, with an additional 25,000 in reserve — a larger force, the dispatch notes, than the city police.
Many journalists who have criticized the party have been beaten, or worse, driving most of the news media in Karachi to tread lightly. In June, the Committee to Protect Journalists, a lobbying group based in New York, accused the party of organizing the killing of Wali Khan Babar, a television reporter.
In the West, the party has avoided critical attention partly because it has cast itself as an enemy of Islamist militancy. In 2001, Mr. Hussain wrote a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, offering to help Britain set up a spy network against the Taliban.
Critics of the party have frequently questioned the role of British officials in facilitating its unusual system of governance. Pakistani exiles from Baluchistan, also accused of fomenting violence, have faced criminal prosecution. But Britain is not the only node of Mr. Hussain’s international support network.
Through the Pakistani diaspora, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement has active branches as far afield as the United States, Canada and even South Africa, which has become an important financial hub and a haven for the group’s enforcers, Pakistani investigators say.
Two police interrogation reports obtained by The New York Times cite militants from the movement who say they traveled to South Africa in between carrying out political assassinations in Karachi. One of those men, Teddy Qamar, confessed to 58 killings between 2006 and 2012, the police say. In an interview, Anis Hasan, the party’s joint organizer for South Africa, denied any link to organized violence.
But if Mr. Hussain seemed immune to scrutiny at his London stronghold, his luck started to turn in September 2010 after Imran Farooq, a once-influential leader in the movement who had split from the party, was stabbed to death near his house in Edgware.
Soon after, Mr. Hussain appeared on television, mourning Mr. Farooq with a flood of tears. But over the past year, the police investigation has turned sharply in his direction.
In December, officers from Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command searched the movement’s London office. Then in June they went to Mr. Hussain’s home and arrested Ishtiaq Hussain, his cousin and personal assistant, who is now out on bail. The police impounded $600,000 in cash and some jewelry under laws that target the proceeds of crime.
Mr. Hussain was not available for an interview, his party said. But a senior party official, Nadeem Nusrat, speaking at the movement’s London office, denied any link to Mr. Farooq’s killing. “Our conscience is clear,” Mr. Nusrat said. “We have nothing to do with it.”
Mr. Nusrat said the impounded money had come from political donations. And he rejected accusations, also the subject of a police inquiry, that Mr. Hussain has directly threatened political rivals, in some instances by warning that he would arrange for their “body bags.”
“It’s all taken out of context,” Mr. Nusrat said.
Mr. Hussain has receded from public view during the recent furor. There have been rumors about mounting health problems, which Mr. Hussain’s aides deny. But he cannot return to Pakistan, they say, because the Taliban could kill him. “In Pakistan,” said Muhammad Anwar, a longtime aide, “nobody can guarantee your life.”
Then there are the legal threats: over the years, dozens of murder charges have been lodged against Mr. Hussain in Pakistan, although some have been quashed in court. A more pressing question, perhaps, concerns the impact on the streets of Karachi if Mr. Hussain is forced to step down.
Some fear that without his guiding hand, tensions within the movement could split it into hostile factions — a frightening prospect in a city where political violence already claims hundreds of lives a year.
“However viciously the party conducts itself, there is an order within the apparent disorder,” said Ms. Shaikh, the academic.
Even if the British government wished to crack down on Mr. Hussain, she added, it might find itself subject to appeals from the Pakistani authorities. “The fear of Karachi going up in flames is so great,” Ms. Shaikh said, “that no government can take that risk, as long as Altaf Hussain is alive.”
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yawnnnnn
so what?
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Governor sindh has gone to Dubai for three days ... Three days may turn into ghaiR muyaniya muddaT ....
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UK police to seek Pak help in Imran Farooq murder probe - thenews.com.pk
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What is stopping them to come to Pakistan and meet with these killers? Why they have to write letters if they really want to solve this mystery without further delay? These are only the tactics of delaying this case by UK police. They know Bhai is responsible for this murder and he is responsible of thousands of cold blooded murders in Pakistan.
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MQM sends $10m defamation notice to NYT journalist - DAWN.COM
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) issued a 10-million-dollar defamation notice to The New York Times' former Islamabad bureau chief, Declan Walsh, and the editor, printer and publisher of the newspaper for allegedly causing disrepute to Altaf Hussain in a 'baseless' report published, [according to the official website of the MQM.](http://www.mqm.org/urdunews/3804)
The notice was served by MQM’s counsel Barrister Farogh Naseem which stated that the baseless reporting on behalf of the NYT had caused damage to the repute of MQM chief Altaf Hussain.
The legal notice asked the New York Times newspaper editor, it’s printer, publisher and journalist Declan Walsh to tender an un-conditional apology within seven days and warned of due legal action in case of failure to do so.
It is pertinent to note here that Declan Walsh, The New York Times’ then Islamabad bureau chief, was expelled from Pakistan on the eve of May 2013 general elections, after the interim government had accused him of unspecified ‘‘undesirable activities.’’
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^ smack how many notices served to date?
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I think MQM has served notices in 4 continents (someone said so on twitter)… 
Asia, America, Europe and …
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Antarctica
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Qutb e Janoobi ke reech na Janoobi London ke tommy ko kia keh dia?
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ye reechoon ka apas ka mamla hay is main dakhal anazai mana hay, wesay bhi bhai kay banday ab social media ki activities ki wajha say banda phaRka detay hain is liye ehtiyat lazim hay
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Altaf Hussain says no power can crush MQM | PAKISTAN - geo.tv
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain Tuesday said no power on earth, including America and Britain, can crush his party as long as it had support of Allah Almighty and the people.
“History tells us that mass movements, which adopt peaceful means to achieve their objectives, may be suppressed for a while, but they cannot be crushed,” Altaf Hussain maintained while addressing rallies via telephone simultaneously in Karachi, Hyderabad, MirpurKhas, Nawabshah, Shanghar and Tando Allahyar on the occasion of his birthday.
The MQM Chief said he had never violated British Laws and always preached his followers the virtues of patience and restraint. He warned the world that MQM’s policy of restraint should not be construed as weakness.
At the outset of his address, he paid rich tributes to MQM’s slain convener Dr. Imran Farooq and prayed for the departed soul.
Hussain said that he had been telling people for a long time that some forces on national and International levels had become active against MQM. He termed the articles and reports published about him in the well-known American and British newspapers as baseless and false. He said derogatory language was against him in these stories.
He added that MQM’s rivals have started displaying what he called their political bias. “Some people have said MQM’s days are numbered,” he added.
The MQM supremo told his supporters that MQM’s rivals had been trying to crush the party for 35 years but ‘we have seen that MQM has become stronger by the grace of Allah and our enemies have suffered defeat’.
“In the past MQM’s rivals had labeled me as the agent of Jews, America and Britain. They should be ashamed of their action. The publication of baseless and fabricated articles in the American and British papers has proved that Altaf Hussain is the agent of Allah, Pakistan and the oppressed people of Pakistan.”
He took a pledge from his workers that they would carry on this movement if anything happened to him. The workers present in the gatherings promised they would.
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