MQM could never lose their support in Karachi if MQM voters in Karachi would keep seeing that:
1: MQM party leaders are not involved in corruption and thus are not getting mega rich without any known source of explainable income.
2: Party is working for the betterment of voters’ life whenever MQM gets opportunity.
3: Party leaders contesting election are from same community and area they are contesting (are from them and known in the area).
4: Party leaders (office bearers) are personally accessible to them, day and night.
5: Party leaders are not gaining bad financially reputation (taking loan and getting it written-off, involved in commissions, bribes, getting plot allotments, or involved in similar financial irregularities, etc).
6: Party leaders are mostly from amongst people (middleclass or lower middleclass) … in other words, people from exploiting class (feudal, tribal leaders, big businessman, etc) have not started dominating party.
7: There is no ‘family tree’ amongst party leaders.
8: Party chairman is not showing any interest in political posts nor promoting his relatives for such posts.
9: Party is well organised and have ability to carry out tasks if given.
10: Party helping poor in community regardless of party be in power or not.
And so on.
Apart of above mentioned points (some I may have missed) … any sort of propaganda, perception amongst anti-MQM voters, wishes of Pakistani elites, desire of establishment, reputation of MQM outside MQM constituencies, etc … nothing can effect MQM vote bank or their influence in their own constituencies.
If people like Zulfiqar Mirza or his kind thinks that people of Karachi are same as people of rural areas in Punjab and Sindh, who would accept what is told without thinking or seeing themselves, than he is wrong. Rather, these people and their outbursts (propaganda as far as Karachi voters are concerned) make MQM stronger in MQM constituencies.