Unplugged With Guppies — Sa1eem

[Sa1eem]

Re: Unplugged With Guppies — Sa1eem

@kakaballi

Sa1eem bhai, are you telling me MQM is not violent and is not involved in criminal activities? Sorry, but I have absolutely no doubt about it.

I am not saying this from propaganda or anecdotal evidence. I can share with you neutral, respected and independent studies of politics and crime in Karachi.

Bhai, did I write anywhere that MQM is not capable of violence? Actually, all parties in Pakistan are capable of violence. No party that is peaceful could survive in Pakistan for long.

So, I would not even like to go into discussion of party being violent or not, rather I would prefer to talk about what a party do, can do, or did for their voters and places they became responsible.

You were saying that if MQM needs to extend to other parts of Pakistan, it needs to counter propaganda with propaganda. As a non-resident of Karachi, I can tell you it won’t work. If MQM leaves its violent and criminal ways, then there is a significant chance of it being successful elsewhere. I would certainly prefer MQM over PPP or PML(N) in that case.

You think that counter propaganda would not work, but I believe it would. You might think that MQM ways are criminal and violent, but I believe differently. For me, they are as criminal or violent as any other Pakistani political parties, with difference that they are mostly from working class, work for people they represent, and are not financially corrupt.

As far as public service is concerned, I can assure you that Shahbaz Sharif does a much better job but lacks the marketing skills of MQM. The problem with him is same as MQM. He focuses on Lahore only and MQM on Karachi only. Of course, he doesn’t have as dedicated and hard working team as MQM.

I do not know what Shahbaz Shareef did, but what I heard is that Pervaiz Elahi did much more work in Punjab during his tenor than what Shahbaz did even though Shahbaz ruled Punjab twice the time Pervaiz Elahi ruled.

Anyhow, you yourself admitted that most of his work is in Lahore, even though he ruled whole of Punjab for years. It shows that he has his prejudices, discriminations and biases … else he would have served all areas he ruled equally. MQM is different here, as they served all areas they ruled, be that area is Karachi or Hyderabad.

Shahaz is also power freak and there are many stories of his high headedness. He is not from working class anyhow to know problems of average Pakistani. To talk about Shareef serving people is just like talking about Wolves serving Sheep. Shareef Brothers are also famous for their financial corruption, lies, arrogance, power misuse, incompetency … and so on.

The question for a non-resident of Karachi when it comes to MQM: How can I differentiate between a party that uses religion to propagate violence and assert power and another that uses ethnicity for same purposes?

Well, your above statement itself is result of propaganda. It seems your propaganda infected mind has developed idea that MQM uses ethnicity to propagate violence, without even questioning how a party can be ethnic that has members and office bearers coming from various ethnicities.

For instance, Muhajirs are people from provinces all over sub-continent with different ethnicity, languages and culture. Further, MQM also have office bearers and voters who are from all over Pakistan (Sindh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Kashmir, Punjab, Saraki, Swati, Pakhtuns, Makrani, Baluch, etc). So, what ethnicity you are talking about?