History of MQM terrorism in Pakistan

[K_Khan]

@Mostar95

The site does not state all the facts: like it states that some 90 Sindhies were killed in Karachi on October 1, 1986 but it misses the fact that some 150 people were killed just a day before that day in Hyderabad on September 30, 1986.

actually it was 1988 and total number was around 220 as reported by the united nations research instittue for social development. I still remember it cos it happened minutes after I came back home ffrom school.

1988
In 1988, the worst clashes since the MQM took power in local elections in Karachi and Hyderabad erupted between police and Pakhtun demonstrators in Karachi, in Sohrab Goth, and evolved into a Pakhtun-mohajir conflict.** In the latter part of the year, the first serious violence between Sindhis and mohajirs erupted in Hyderabad. An attempt on the life of Hyderabad’s hard-line MQM mayor, Sheikh Aftab, resulted in rioting by the JSSF and MQM students which left 37 dead. **Trouble continued to spread to interior cities, like Larkana and Tando Jam, while violence further intensified in Hyderabad where one massacre led to the deaths of over 220 people. As most of the victims were mohajirs, the large mohajir communities in urban Sindh blamed Sindhi extremists for the killings. Only nine hours after the Hyderabad killings, revenge killings in Karachi claimed at least 58 lives.

SOURCE

here is another link, it’s quite impartial and discusses the history of violence in Karachi from very begining.

A DIVIDED CITY