Hahaha... came too soon. Were these army officials bribed or (more realistically) threatened to say it?
Interestingly, MQM was in government with Nawaz Sharif in Sindh Assembly in 1993 after the alleged killing of 'innocent' karachites in 1992. Why was killing of 'sympathisers' (read terrorists) ignored at that time?
And Saleem bhai, your language is the same as Taliban.
As for the 'innocent sympathisers', this is only a 'jhalak':
*The APMSO bought its first weapons from the IJT and the National Students Federation (NSF) while the MQM built a part of its armoury by trading cars for guns with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)49. ........These boys have not only taken over the local distribution network, but also bring in their own supplies through regular visits to the tribal areas. They travel in small groups, always by train, and return to Karachi with their bags brimming with metal”51. The Mohajir students who resorted to that trade were initially apprehensive, thinking that the Pathan gunsmiths would refuse to sell them weapons because they would be turned against their brethren in Karachi. But ethnic prejudices were set aside by the Pathans when striking deals with Mohajirs. ......
In this environment, a culture of ultra-violence developed among Karachi's and Hyderabad's youths56 and firearms became a “fetish” for a whole generation, i.e. objects which cease to be purely functional to take on “an abstract power, an autonomous agency”57. These deadly weapons were no longer the attributes of the “uncouth and tribal Pathan”: they became “glamorous” to all and many young Mohajir males started carrying arms as an ornament. The possession of arms also provided these frustrated youths with a feeling of empowerment. “There is no greater feeling than having a well-oiled, loaded kalashnikov in your hotel room cupboard, with the whole hostel knowing about it” declared a Mohajir student to the magazine Newsline in October 1989. .......
**MQM members settled abroad are generally more loquacious, on this delicate issue, than those who remain based in Pakistan:
[INDENT]When the majority wants a separate state and we get the support of other countries, then we can do it . . . based on violence . . . because we will have to use violence. (. . .) I'm not saying MQM should do that, create that kind of environment where people suffer . . . but in my opinion, if I was the MQM leader, I would tell them to create that environment where we can make that state . . . It's pretty harsh but when you have to do it, one way or another, either you shut your mouth or you do it all the way . . . Even if you have to kill a few people . . . If you want to gain something then you have to loose something . . . . . .]
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Source:
Guns, Slums, and “Yellow Devils”: A Genealogy of Urban Conflicts in Karachi, Pakistan
LAURENT GAYER
Modern Asian Studies (2007), 41: 515-544 Cambridge University Press