Re: What is the solution of Karachi violence
Please read and ponder: I think problem of Karachi is similar to problem of colonised people fighting for their rights. Give Karachi its due right, right that every independent community in the world deserves, and violence would be over. Due rights are:
Give Karachi money with respect to population as Karachi gets money for less than 8 million people and expect to take care of 20 million people.
Give Karachi fair access to own created resources. Federal as well as provincial government cannot do that they take away created resources (taxes and other revenues) from Karachi and do not give them back much in return, spending those resources using one excuse or another on people outside Karachi. This starts feeling of hate in Karachi when they feel that Karachi is getting exploited by those who are not from Karachi but are living on taxes generated in Karachi, while Karachi starves due to lack of resources.
[Note: Government health budget, government educational budget, and government budget for amenities in Karachi are least per head compared to any city of Pakistan … even when population of Karachi is taken as 80 million. Exploitation is such that sadly even electricity sold to Karachi is at rate much higher than rest of Pakistan. Many areas of Karachi had no water or sewerage system and there were no adequate transport facilities. Government did not spend much on even road infrastructure, schools, or recreational facility. Unfortunately, all this happening to city that contributes a large portion of taxes that Pakistan collects].
Give Karachi (especially Muhajirs) enough federal and provincial Jobs what they deserve (and that also after making sure that people getting jobs are from Karachi and not those who take up Karachi domicile to deprive people of Karachi). For instance, population of Karachi + Hyderabad + Sukker together has 7.6 percent quota on federal jobs and 40 percent quote on provincial jobs, when population of Karachi alone is around 12 percent of Pakistan and almost 50 percent of Sindh. Unfortunately, even that 7.6 percent of federal jobs and 40 percent of provincial jobs are not given to these people. Even job quota what Karachi gets; exploiters from Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab takes share from it by obtaining illegal domicile of Karachi and later using connections (nepotism, political connections, racial connections, provincial connections, etc) to get job on quota of Karachi. On the other hand, only mean of earning for Karachiets (especially Muhajirs) is jobs as there are no agricultural workers in Karachi nor such opportunities, that means more jobs is required by Karachiets than by others in Pakistan. [Note: In comparison, resident of Lahore can compete for around 50 percent of Federal jobs and 100 percent of Punjab provincial jobs (Punjab provincial jobs itself is more than twice of Sindh], plus on top of that, many from Lahore (as well as other part of Punjab) take up illegal domicile of other provinces and use their connections in government to get jobs allocated to other provinces, especially jobs allocated to Karachi and Baluchistan. Thus, grudges get develops amongst karachiets (as well as Baluchistan) that result in hates and killing.
Karachi should be given control of their own life, such as policing and administration should be by Karachiets, something that is not there since long and that creates hate amongst Karachiets. For instance, most in police and government administrative jobs in Karachi are filled by people of Punjab and Pakhtun and thus people of Karachi live as if they are living under occupation of Punjab and pakhtuns. That is hateful thing and results in hate that causes frustration and killing of Pakhtuns and Punjabis in Karachi. Actually, this problem was epidemic before MQM. In Karachi, if a person goes to police, court, customs, or any department in civil administration, what they use to encounter was almost all employed were Punjabis and some Pakhtuns but negligible Muhajirs … something that got changed a bit though not enough, after MQM.
Note: Policing and administration by those who are not majority amongst locals happens only in areas or countries that are under occupation, or where racists and apartheid rule. For instance, one may find such in Israel and in South Africa when SA was under White rule. Even in England where I live, if any locality has large percentage of Asian/Black population, government tries to give them policing and administration by Asian/black in that area. But in Karachi where most are Muhajirs, it is funny that policing and administration are mostly in the hand of non-Muhajirs … though that has changed a bit after MQM.
Whatever I mentioned above, if sorted out, could solve problem of Karachi a lot.
[Actually, whatever I mentioned above, especially policing, administration and taking of allocated quota jobs on fake domicile by people of Punjab is happening in Baluchistan too, and that is causing lot of problem in Baluchistan, where Baluchs are killing Punjabis].
Pakistan has wide spread racialism and provincialism by people of certain provinces. Anyhow, most funny thing is that, when they are told to stop their provincialism and racialism and give right to others, same people start crying and start blaming those who want such thing to stop, calling them racist, etc.
For instance, an example out of many: Most in Pakistan Navy are from Punjab and Pakhtunkhwa, some are Muhajirs too. Most surprising is that, neither Punjab nor Pakhtunkhwa has Sea. On the other hand, Sindhis, Makranis, and Balochs are almost nonexistent in Pakistan Navy when it should be they who deserve to be in Pakistan navy most, as many are fishermen and have experience of sea from their childhood more than any in Pakistan. Anyhow, if Sindhis, Makranis, and Baluch start agitation on this basis, asking for jobs in Navy because they deserve such job most, they would be called racist by these people (who themselves are racist).