According to you the reason for military action was the MQMs activities in the period preceding the operations - just listen to what the guy who was the PM at that time thought about this period
What happened next; military operation , creation of MQM Haqiqi , no go areas…, & death of hundreds if not thousands of innocent Karachites - be it of any ethnicity who were bystanders in this whole affair & had nothing to do with either MQM or any other political party.
My friend the reality is that the level of ethnic integration in Karachi is far far greater then any other city in Pakistan.
Do you know more then 90% of Houses / Apartment Blocks inhabited by Urdu Speakers are secured by Guards or Chowkidars as we call them that are Pathans, what does this tell you - yes Pathans are brave & honorable people but it also means that a ‘Muhajir’ is willing to trust a pathan with the security of his women & children , which is impossible if there is genuine ethnic conflict bw people.
In a very huge percentage of mosques in karachi; the Imam is a pushtoon specially for the deoband maslakh, you dont pray behind someone if you have a racial hatred for them.
The ratio of inter-marriages b/w punjabis & urdu speakers in karachi is extremely high, I dont think there is any formal study on this subject so it is difficult to compare it with other parts but I will not be surprised if the ratio is higher then inter-marriages b.w any two communities anywhere in Pakistan
Yes we have clashes b/w armed groups affiliated with different political parties(most of the parties have some sort of ethnic identity as well), but at its base its a conflict over control of resources , power & influence - its root are not based on ethnicity.I will not deny that there is a militant element of MQM, but this is part & parcel of Karachi politics & power status quo since the Afghan war, & everyone who is a player in Karachi Politics is involved MQM did not start this , it started before the inception of MQM- they took it to the next level with the support of establishment who were a player in this affair; sometimes backing them sometimes confronting them- but this whole ordeal of switching sides was never directed by principles, nobody here is fighting over principles every one of these groups is only pursuing their own self interest. This conflict is not b/w good & evil , its between evil vs evil & I dont subscribe to your views of disqualifying one evil just because you dont like their faces.
Finally listen to the following… , while i dont agree with everything Hasan Nisar said about MQM but I agree with the parts related to propaganda & getting them into the main stream.