Re: PPP-MQM talks held at Nine Zero
I thought you were all for 'democratic progress'. Did you forget Musharraf was the first one to reach out to MQM and make a coalition, only difference his tactics cashed in on the exiled party leaders. PPP's trying to make a reconciliation effort.
Why the double standards Aalsi?
:)
Re: PPP-MQM talks held at Nine Zero
Teggy bhaijan. Are ypu saying that PPP is continuing with great President Musharaf’s policies? 
Re: PPP-MQM talks held at Nine Zero
No. That's what you're saying. :)
Re: PPP-MQM talks held at Nine Zero
Teggy bhaijan. I am disappointed for PPP supporters that had been urging people not to make deals and talk with MQM - the socalled terrorist party. Rre you not happy with PPP talking and discussing deals with MQM.
Mashallah. I am happy that all parties are coming together. Just a few minutes ago I was watching Zardari on GEO standing next to Fazl-UR-Rehman, the JUI leader, announcing the formation of a National Unity government.
Good to see Zardari already working like the great President Musharaf. 
Sunni Tehrik opposes MQM-PPP alliance
Yet another not so happy party about this alliance.
h[URL=“http://www.dawn.com/2008/02/28/nat18.htm”]ttp://www.dawn.com/2008/02/28/nat18.htm
Sunni Tehrik opposes MQM-PPP alliance
SUKKUR, Feb 27: The Sunni Tehrik has warned of protest movement if the Muttahida Qaumi Movement is included in next Sindh government by the Pakistan People’s Party.
An ST meeting held here on Wednesday and presided over by its provincial leader Maulana Noor Ahmed Qasmi discussed the present political situation.
The meeting alleged that the MQM was involved in the killings of ST leaders at Nishtar Park. It alleged that ST workers were subjected to atrocities by MQM activists, while Karachi and Hyderabad had become no-go areas for ST workers. The meeting alleged that false cases were also registered against ST workers.
Leaders of the ST said that they had withdrawn their candidates in favour of PPP’s candidates, but the leadership of PPP was disappointing Sindhis by taking MQM into their coalition.
The ST leaders said that they would meet PPP’s leadership to inform it about their reservations on this issue.—Correspondent
Re: Sunni Tehrik opposes MQM-PPP alliance
Yet another not so happy party about this alliance.
With so many people against the Alliance, why is PPP going out of its way to make an alliance with MQM?
Re: PPP, MQM negotiations. (Thread merged)
Secular forces coming tigether?
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008/02/29/story_29-2-2008_pg12_3
**ANP appreciates PPP-MQM meeting **
KARACHI: The president of the Awami National Party (ANP) for Sindh, Shahi Syed, appreciated that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) met Thursday.
“The PPP is one of Pakistan’s biggest parties and it is big of it, even though it has a majority in the Sindh Assembly, to engage with other parties,” he said during a meeting with Shahid Ghauri of the Sunni Tehreek at Mardan House, according to a press release.
The PPP must give priority to the May 12, Oct 18 and Jan 14 incidents as their killers can be traced, he said, stressing that all political parties must take a united stand to curb terrorism and to solve urban problems.
Re: PPP, MQM negotiations. (Thread merged)
yet another not a happy camper about this joint venture.
http://www.dawn.com/2008/03/01/local6.htm
HYDERABAD: PPP’s move to form govt with MQM criticised
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, Feb 29: The Sindh Democratic Forum (SDF) has expressed concern over attempts of Pakistan Peoples Party to form a ‘government of consensus’ in Sindh for which it is holding talks with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.
In a statement mailed to Dawn, the convener of the forum, Abrar Kazi, and secretary, Zulfiqar Halepoto, said that the mandate given to the PPP by the people of Sindh was unique in nature.
“Not only is it their show of enormous love and affection for Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and her struggle and supreme sacrifice for her people and for restoration of democracy and Sindh’s rights but also on account of the humiliation, highhandedness and terrorism suffered by them at the hands of Arbab Rahim, Pir Pagara and MQM combine, backed and supported by the communalist government in the centre headed by Pervez Musharraf,” the leaders of the think tank said.
The PPP, they said, should remember that the majority of the people of Sindh have always voted for PPP since its creation and have suffered tremendously at the hands of the military dictators for this loyalty and also because of their support for pluralism, tolerance, democracy, rule of constitutionalism and law, and for peace and progress.
The PPP should not forget that the previous government of Sindh in which the MQM was a major shareholder had inflicted enormous wounds to Sindhi people and Sindh’s politics, chief among which was the constant conspiracy of taking Karachi away from rest of Sindh by making it a city government, denying jobs and admissions to Sindhi youths in Karachi, bifurcating Hyderabad district into four parts just to create an MQM- dominated district government thereby giving a serious blow to the integration of Sindhi people, they said.
They said withdrawing cases of heinous crimes like murder and arson against MQM criminals, foisting a governor who was wanted by police, doling out thousands of jobs to its supporters without merit, demolition of kutchi abadis of Sindhi people living in Karachi and Hyderabad while at the same time while regularising those of people speaking other languages, selling away large chunks of land in the coastal belt and islands of Sindh were steps specifically meant to hurt the interests of Sindhi people and the body politic of Sindh.
They said the MQM claims to be the harbinger of middle class politics but in practice it had strengthened the decaying feudal lords of Sindh by helping them to control districts of Sindh as their fiefdoms, reintroducing inhuman customs like murder in karo kari, abduction for ransom and jirga system. The incoming PPP government must undo all this, they demanded.
The forum leaders were of the opinion that PPP should form a government without succumbing to blackmail and added that MQM was an ethnic and communalist party that claimed to be national in character but demanded forcible representation for Karachiites, meaning Urdu speakers.
The forum leaders said that they considered all people living in Sindh as Sindhis, speaking different languages.
Therefore, the MQM’s demand for representation of a portion of Sindh was unjust and undemocratic and based on mischief, they added.