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Election is a matter of months.
It is MQM way to get its vote power in tact .
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Peaceful because only 14 people were killed 
The matter is we have become so senseless that killings just become a number. A number to quote ‘Humare itne aadmi mare gaye’ for our political purposes. No one thinks that how badly one day strike in a city like Karachi affects daily wagers forming majority of the population. We don’t think that 14 people means 14 families lost their bread earners. Its very easy for politician to announce youm e sog and then congratulate the affectees.
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I was reading a tweet by some journalist that the three days of strikes has cost the exchequer a loss of Rs 26 billion.
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On a micro level, logon ke gharon ke choolhe thande pad ge.. People are already affected by loadshediing, unemployment, inflation. If these Parliamentarians chanting slogans of "Roti, Kapda aur Makan' and ' Haq Parasti' are there for giving people such gifts and failed to secure our lives, we don't need them. People don't need amendments in constitutions to give these looters lawful way for corruption. As they have made our lives hell, they will burn in hell, as their so called Shuhda must be burning in hell.
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With the body count still rising, the President swoops into town – The Express Tribune
3rd ‘day of mourning’: Normalcy returns to Karachi – The Express Tribune
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Please hand over the government to Nawaz sharif so that he could solve karachi’s problems:
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Karachi is much better than before but some hidden powers trying to develop tension again mean while foreign hand also remains active all the time .
However heat of the hate is much less .
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Election is a matter of months. It is MQM way to get its vote power in tact .
What about violence last year in summer, elections were few additional months away, what about violence few months before that?
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same thing happenend in 90's...
how were things resolved thn? how did they bring back peace?
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Why Karachi bleeds - Dr Farrukh Saleem
Q: What type of conflict is taking place in Karachi?
A: The classification is “Ethno-political” – ethnicity, identity, politics and crime are all in conflict with each other.
Q: Who are the primary actors in the conflict?
A: MQM, ANP and PPP.
Q: Who are the secondary actors in the conflict?
A: Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), organised criminal gangs, sectarian entities and foreign intelligence agencies.
Q: What is at stake for Pakistan?
A: Karachi produces more than $40 billion worth of goods and services every year, close to 25 percent of Pakistan’s GDP. This translates into Rs10 billion a day every day of the year.
Q: What are the motivations of the primary actors in the conflict?
A: **For the MQM, Karachi is the lone source of some two-dozen National Assembly seats and 51 Provincial Assembly seats. For the MQM Karachi enables the MQM to capture more than its fair share of clout in Islamabad as well as in Karachi. For the MQM, its entire electoral base is up in flames.
For the ANP, the party claims to represent some 25 percent of Karachi’s population but only has two seats in a 168-seat Sindh Assembly. For the ANP Karachi is a Rs10 billion pie in which it feels that the party is not getting its fair share.
For the PPP, Karachi only produces half-a-dozen seats of the 93 that the PPP won in Sindh. In essence, 95 percent of the PPP’s political stakes in Sindh are outside of Karachi. The PPP views the MQM-ANP bloodbath as being to the PPP’s political advantage.
For the TTP, Karachi is a godsend, a golden opportunity to squeeze Pakistan’s financial hub and create even more chaos, anarchy and discord. The TTP’s ultimate objective being not just the capture of Karachi but of the state itself.
For organised crime, sectarian outfits and foreign intelligence agencies Karachi has become an intersection where militant wings of political parties and organised criminal mafias meet and bleed each other.
**
Q: What is really driving the Karachi bloodshed?
A: Karachi is home to two things: an extremely dysfunctional state machinery and an extremely opportunistic political elite. To be sure, the interests of the masses and the interests of the Karachi elite are not the same. **The MQM elite are fearful of losing their monopoly over their lone source of power. The ANP elite are bent upon capturing what they say is their fair share of power-and money.
This is what I wrote a few months ago: “The political elite – for their own interests – manipulate the security concerns of the masses through intentional incitements of ethnic animosities. Neither MQM nor ANP trust that the government has either the ability or the will to protect them against an attack. Then there is a spiralling cycle in which members of Group A mobilise and arm themselves to deter an attack from Group B. Group B, in turn, views the mobilisation threatening and arms itself to deter an attack. Fear leads to bloody conflict.”**
Q: How do the primary actors justify this politics of murder?
A:** The MQM justifies the use of extreme violence because the ANP is doing the same, and vice versa.**
Q: When and how would the conflict end?
A: An end is not in sight because there hasn’t even been any formalised, structured attempt in conflict management.
The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad. Email: [EMAIL=“[email protected]”][email protected]
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No wonder he’s still alive.
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Does anyone know that how many police men are there in Karachi and what is there ratio? someone not very long ago told me that the ratio is 1:750, if it is true, then the govt no matter which and by whom is responsible for the blood shed and crime rate in the city... how come 1 police man is going to provide security to 750 people???
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If you consider the population of Karachi to be 2 crores and the sanctioned strength of police is 35000 which makes the ratio of one police man to 563 people.
As far as Lahore is concerned if we take the population to be one crore and the sanctioned strength 26000 the ratio comes to around 1 policeman per 377 people, if you take out the policemen in VIP duties (over 15000) the situation becomes more grave.
http://www.dawn.com/2011/07/04/officers-invoke-1934-rules-to-seek-more-police.html
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Election is a matter of months. It is MQM way to get its vote power in tact .
Preposterous.
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No wonder he's still alive.
Are you saying that MQM is the one responsible for killings and extortion in the city?
If you say yes then you really are from Planet Vulcan who knows nothing about Karachi. It's only hate based bigotry.
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Preposterous.
Mushkal English mat Likha karain meray liay .
Piar ki Zuban Urdu ya aasan English istamaal kia karain .
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Are you saying that MQM is the one responsible for killings and extortion in the city? If you say yes then you really are from Planet Vulcan who knows nothing about Karachi. It's only hate based bigotry.
one of the responsible
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Karachi is much better than before but some hidden powers trying to develop tension again mean while foreign hand also remains active all the time . However heat of the hate is much less .
Heat of the hate would be even less if government could control the beasts unleashed on Karachi people by Zulfiqar Mirza. These are the same people who are responsible for bhatta against which the shop keepers went to strike recently.
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one of the responsible
So be it. Why blame MQM alone?
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Police strength definitely needs to be increased. But there are camera footages where police is seen running from the crime scene instead of trying to stop them. For example, when ANP fired upon the mushaira in Karachi by MQM.
CCTV footage of attack on MQM Mushaira in Karachi show ANP terrorist firing in front of Police - YouTube
I think besides increasing police strength, they also need more security gear so that they could actually confront the criminals.