Re: for god sake…
yes, I do live in the be-muraad city called Karachi.
All parties (including MQM) started their campaign lately and after first blast near MQM office, general public was also of the view that it was done by MQM to get sympathy. Even some newspapers like Ummat claimed that there was no MQM office near People’s chorangi. Then came blasts in Nusrat Bhutto colony and Orangi and everyone in Karachi knows about the elements living in those areas. Now MQM seems to get sympathy vote from those areas where they didn’t do any work in last five years. The situation has been suitable for MQM due to posters in almost all areas from Taleban against these three parties and against election.
As far as the activity by other parties, I’ve seen banners / poster of all parties in city. Today when I went for Zuhr, I saw posters / banners and election office in my way and near Masjid banners of Jamat e Islami. Our area is MQM’s stronghold, but we hear vehicles running on nearby road playing elction songs ‘Jeete ga jeete ga, iss bar tarazu jeete ga’. Today they have set up PTI office on road opposite to our home playing ‘saaf chali shiffaf chali’ all day. MQM’s sector office is not far away from the place. so running election campaign by PTI, MQM and JI in same area say that these parties don’t have conflict as far as running campaign is concerned.