Talibanization of Karachi: Still don't believe it?

[khoji]

Re: Talibanization of Karachi: Still don’t believe it?

@kakaballi

Listen and do what? Here’s a party that has been in government for decades, also has resisted every effort to deweaponize Karachi, is the largest promoter or terror and violence in the city, thrives on extortion and crime, uses similar violent tactics as taliban, kills Pakistan’s security personnel, is a large buyer of weapons from the same suppliers who supply to taliban, talking about talibanization of the city?

When that ‘leader’ who has for decades made great efforts to create an environment of lawlessness and violence in the city talks about violence from another party, it is not about people believing him or not but people seriously doubt his sincerity for bringing peace to the largest city in Pakistan. It is his concern for losing power to another entity in Karachi and not his sympathy for suffering of common people that makes his statements worthless and ridiculous.

• Your list of accusations against MQM is not as long as I expected. Probably you got tired of thinking the stuff.
• It is not about “violence from another party”. You seem to be pointing towards ANP. It is about Taliban, and it is ridiculous to call Taliban a party.
• With the long list of accusations and hateful propaganda in the minds of people, it is not surprising that they don’t believe a single word MQM utters. But the truth of MQM’s stance when everyone else was rejecting it proves once and for all that MQM is not a party of devil which everyone believes it to be, and that many a times what is says is absolutey true but people don’t believe it due to their hatred and narrow mindedness.

Is it really that MQM guys were the only smart enough to foresee the growing influence of Taliban, which now everyone is accepting is the reality? Of course not. Everyone is smart enough but what is missing is the objectivity and ability to see things beyond the narrow-minded prejudice in people’s mind.
It is not possible that Pakistani intelligence agencies did not know the presence of Taliban in Karachi and their plans for the future. But they were keeping mum because it was not politically expedient to take any action.