Violence in Karachi [all threads merged]

[khoji]

Re: Karachi problem is bw Taliban and Muslims. It is not bw Urdu speakers and Pashtun

@ravage

given that virtually every reporter on scene is saying its ANP/MQM fighting it out. For you to then say its not bw urdu speakers and pashtuns but about taleban.. .

Well, I never said that it is not between MQM, ANP, and PPP members fighting each other.
But I said that this particular increase in violence has to do with Taliban element present in the city. That is the root cause.
Now obviously this thing will escalate and more and more Urduspeaker/Pashtuns will be included here due to the spiral of violence. But the root cause does not change.

So, people motivated by these extremist imams in pashtun population are going into their own homes and killing and burning?

Again. I did not say that Urdu speakers are not doing it at all. Action and reaction knows no boundaries.

What you have done is posted articles talking about a new dimension of Karachi’s multifaceted violence, and claimed that this means that the people fighting today are these people.

No. I have said that these people have escalated the fighting. This thing has been going on since long, but it was not as bad. It happened only when it was given religious approval through the use of fatwas from mosques.