jehadi supporters claim that jehadis should get the same treatment that mqm got from gop.
i agree.
in the 90’s when mqm turned violent, law enforcement agencies eliminated hundreds of mqm workers through extra-judicial means usually through encounter killings. when the law enforcement agencies could not get job done, the army moved in, locked down entire neighbourhoods that were mqm strongholds and cleaned those neighbourhoods of mqm weapons. end result of army actions was that mqm learnt its lesson - it realised that it was fruitless fighting with the army and that mqm was better off fighting in the political arena. karachites benefitted great deal from actions against mqm. political violence was completely eliminated from karachi and today, karachi is growing at an unprecedented pace while mqm is playing a strong role in the development of pak especially by dealing mullah supporters in a language mullah supporters understand. its precisely for its anti-mullah stance that i would vote for mqm.
in the interest of fairness and for the continued progress of pak, jehadis deserve to get the mqm special. medicine should not be stopped until jehadis agree to give up suicide bombing and sectarian killings. treating jehadis with kid gloves has only made them think that they can impose their agenda through violence and intimidation. its time to make them think otherwise by handing them strong doses of pain.
During that time these same jehadis were also involved in the fighting against MQM, but now they are crying when they are getting 1/5th of the same treatment.
Unfortunately, MQM was subsequntly suported by the government. They were helped by eliminating the Haqiqi group and with weapons.
Musharraf then used them openly to gun down 48 protestors. But not a single person has been acconted for. Unless the government goes after the MQM just like it did to Ghazi brothers, it will be seen as favouring the terrorrists.
Security does not come with bullets, guns and troop deployment, it can only come if government bring all the sections of society on board and brings justice, harmony and reconciliation. This government cannot solve the problem of extremism, for it supports the worst of extremists Altaf Hussain.
And i can tell you MQM sympathisers that what went on on May 12 has not done any good to you.
no doubt mqm was involved in the may 12 mayhem. but so were other parties. anyone who thinks otherwise is a devious liar or a deluded fool. both kinds of people are not worthy of debate. imran khan, who has has suddenly jumped on the anti-mqm bandwagon, was 10 years ago accusing ppp of bombing his hospital. and yet today imran khan wants to form an alliance with ppp. the fact that two-bit politicians like imran khan are scared of mqm is ample evidence of the continued effectiveness of mqm in countering the jehadi support behind imran khan's back.
haqiqi had support of agencies much like jehadis did. agencies help against mqm was utilised by parties who could not dent mqm vote bank. haqiqi centre of operation in karachi was much like the jamia hafisa. when mqm switched its support to the centre, LEAs moved against haqiqi stronghold just like LEAs moved against jamia hafisa. interestingly the APC declaration specifically calls for the release of afaq hussain there by indicating that a. politicians intend to do same damage to karachi that they did in the 90's and b. accusations against mqm leadership is politically motivated. also APC has elements who are supporting balochi terrorists who have killed more LEAs than mqm ever did. bottom line politicians only want power and they dont care if the country goes into flames.
mqm being violent does not counter the fact that jehadi are killing pakistanis through suicide bombings and sectarian killings. govt is well within its rights to target that group first which govt perceives is a bigger threat to pak. the fact that jehadi supporters here keep dragging mqm's name in any discussion about jehadis is ample proof that they cant morally or logically defend jehadi actions so they want to switch the debate.
If anyone is a devious liar then it is your leader Altaf Hussain. May 12 was caused only and only by MQM. 47 of opposition party wrokers and "arguably" 1 or 3 or MQM workers died.
Let's not make it about 12th May here. We all agree that there was such a thing 'MQM Special' handed out in the 90s, and that's something we want the Mullahs to get a taste of.
I say we don't even have to go that far. This Taaliban movement is rising from Wazirastan areas and uses the young (abandoned) boys of poor Pushton population. Without the help of their handlers, these boys wouldn't even know how to travel from Peshawar to Lahore. All we need is a surgical operation to take out their leadership. Not through bombardments, but through assassinations. This is not an Islamic Insurgency mind you, this is a Wazirastan insurgency that is exploiting the anti-US sentiment in Pakistan as well as the contacts they established from Afghan War days. How well meaning these guys are is evident from their post-Soviet era when they couldn't stop killing one another.
Unfortunately, we continue to let the Wazirastan freaks to represent the face of Pakistan in international community. Hire some mercenaries, execute some surgical assassination operations, and get rid of their leadership without much noise.