Adil Najam
Pictures on the television show Karachi burning. The city is at war. Morchas everywhere. Clashes, violence, firing, deaths.
The Chief Justice is holed up at the airport and the streets are ruled by mobs. Aaj TV is being fired at and Talat Hussain reports that the police and rangers are unable to get their to help because the roads are blocked (to stop the Chief Justice). Of course, these road blocks have not stopped the killers who are firing at the TV station. As of now 15 are reported dead. Over 100 seriously injured. Hospitals in Karachi have declared an emergency. The Prime Minister has called an emergency meeting of his own to respond to what the government is calling a ‘security situation’ but which sounds, smells, looks and feels like the beginning of a war on the streets of Karachi. Flights in and out of the city are stalled. Train traffic is stopped. The city seems to have descended back to its darkest days of street violence.
Meanwhile, the petty blame game continues. But things are changing too fast for one to analyze them. But one thing is certain. Things have gone out of control. Totally out of control. Totally out of everyone’s control. It is a sad sad day for all of us.
I wish I had something more profound to say. All I can hink of right now is what someone wrote on our comments section recently: Khuda Khair Karray!
(Picture credits BBC and The News and pictorial story at Bilal Zuberi’s blog; great blog coverage at Karachi Metroblog).
mein aap sab se itefaq nahi kerta jis ney bhi altaf hussain ko bura bhala kaha hai lekin jab altaf hussain ney jab tanzeem (mqm)ki bynyaad rakhi to us ka maqsad sirf aur sirf 98% awam ki awaz ko un logon taq pohnchana jo hum per musallat they aaj (mqm) wo wahid jamat hai jo awam ki apni jamat hai jis mein qaum parasti nahi balkaye qaumi yaqjehti ka sabaq diya jata hai,mein logon se ye zaroor poochon ga jo ye kehtey hein k altaf hussain qatil hai agar apney mulk (pakistan)k haq k liye bolna awaz uthana jurm hai sach bolna jurm hai to haan wo mujrin hai nareyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy mutahidda jiyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee mutahidda allah hafiz
The Karachiites, listen
let us all tell those who burned and killed Karachi, they will be
unmasked very soon. It should never ever happen again to
Karachi.
Canada has officially declared MQM as a terrorist party.
Imran Khan is already making headways in bringing this mad man to justice and now Asma Jahangir’s official statement from HRCP platform will explode this on international arena..
You can hide but not forever..sooner or later the law will get you for your misdeeds!! Looks like that both the persons (Mush & Altaf Bhai) responsible for May 12th mayhem in Karachi are finally trapped in their own web of deceit…
I have seen only one sided picture all pointing to MQM, but I failed to understand who was on the other side of exchange of bullets. What was their objective with fully armed? For sure they did not come fully armed with any good intentions. They also knew very well what they were going to do. On the other hand if Mr Iftekhar Chowdry was concerned about the ordinary people, why did not he backed off. He is not stupid to not to understand the situation was extremely tense and the outcome, but he was adamant to show his strength. One should blame MQM and the Militants of ANP who chose the Newtown mosque’s militants dominanted by people from NWFP. It is surpising that Native Sindhi, Kachhi and Baloch did not paly any role. It was between MQM and people from NWFP, switching between ANP and Extremists of Madarasa
Banuri Mosque and other outsider.
Another strange fact is that, most of Mosques contolled by Wahabis are managed by Mullahs from NWFP and Punjab and so are the pupils.
Role of MQM is not hidden, but what is the agenda of other people to use SIND and Karachi.
Mirza; you summarized ..
“Putting blame of every thing on MQM is not fare, believe me, not fare.”
We promise to be “Fair” next time!