Altaf calls for the army as coalition turns to Zardari

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Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain called for the army to be deployed in violence-ravaged Karachi on Wednesday, as coalition partners in the provincial government mandated President Asif Ali Zardari to negotiate with all political forces to bring peace and normalcy to the provincial capital. Another four people were killed in gang wars in Karachi as Rangers personnel set up makeshift pickets in troubled areas and began spot-checking traffic.
Violence subsided somewhat in the city on Wednesday as a semblance of normalcy returned following orders for Rangers to begin targeted operations, and as the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary was given police powers and put on standby.
ALTAF DEMANDS ACTION: Speaking to party leaders via telephone from London, the MQM chief said action should be taken against those involved in terrorist activities, even if they belonged to the MQM, a private TV channel reported.
He said those who claimed ownership of Pakistan today had actually been “slaves of Hindu banias” before partition and the freedom they were enjoying today was because of the Muhajirs’ struggle. “Pakistan came into being because of Muhajirs,” he said.The MQM chief said the army must come to Karachi and see for itself who was involved in the killings. He said if a single MQM worker was found involved, action should be taken against him. He called on President Zardari, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah to stop “patronizing” terrorists and gangsters.

Meanwhile, the Presidency remained engaged in a series of meetings to develop an amicable strategy to bring peace and normalcy to Karachi “at all costs”, with three back-to-back meetings being held in relation to the situation in the violence-hit port city.
ZARDARI AUTHORISED: The coalition partners in the provincial government decided to authorise President Zardari to hold political negotiations with all political forces in order to bring peace and normalcy to the city besides taking appropriate administrative and law and order measures for the purpose.
Presidential Spokesman Farhatullah Babar said the decision was taken in the first of a series of meetings of the Sindh cabinet, comprising provincial ministers from the Pakistan People’s Party, the Awami National Party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid and the PML-Functional. The meeting reiterated the government’s resolve to restore peace in Karachi “at all costs and to bring the culprits to justice regardless of their affiliations, if any”.
The president called upon all the political forces to complement the government’s efforts to bring peace to the city and to bring the criminal elements to justice. He said the government believed in taking along all the political forces on the issues of national importance and would continue to do so in future. On a question by the president about the implementation of his previous directives to release funds to strengthen the provincial police, the Sindh finance minister said the first installment of Rs 450 million of the Rs 5 billion package had been released. The president ordered the remaining amount to be progressively released to meet the police’s demand for vehicles, APCs, bullet-proof vests, helmets, weapons and other accessories. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said meanwhile that a full-scale operation would not be conducted in Karachi, but Rangers would take targeted action based on specific intelligence To a question, Malik said he agreed with the reservations expressed by Altaf Hussain and action was being taken against outlaws and terrorists in Karachi because of that.

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  1. If ARMY HAS TO COME,IT MUST FIRST ASK; HOW COME AN ABSCONDER,NRO CONVICTED WITH CRIMINAL RECORD AND FIRS ,A BRITISH NATIONAL OWNING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WEALTH IN EUROPE ETC CAN DESPOTICALLY COMMAND POLITICS OF PAKISTAN,HIS PARTY AND ROUSE MUTINY AMONG DEFENSE FORCES IN LIVE TV SPEECHES FOR MONTHS,NOW ADVISES MQM PEOPLE TO STORE RATION AS IF WAR IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE,TALKS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING WHILE PPPZ COALITION PARTNER FOR FORTY MONTHS AND GOVERNOR -SIND BELONGING TO MQM AND SIGNALS OF MQM REJOINING PPPZ IN SIND,CENTER ETC.AFTER TWO SEATS WERE GIVEN TO MQM BY PPPZ:WHAT IS THIS TARGET KILLING ALL ABOUT.PERHAPS VERY BIG BLACKMAILING BARGAING CHIP TO DO WHAT.,DISINTEGRATE PAKISTAN OR PUNJAB?SURLT,MQM WILL JOIN PPPZ IN THIS SINISTER GAME WHWEN IN LAST FORTY MONTHS JOINT COALITION WITH ANIP AND NOW ML-Q,CHOUDRIES THEY HAVE KILLED MORE THAN 4000 POOR PEOPLE IN KARACHI AND LOOTED NATIONAL EXCHEQUER DRY AND BARREN AND POUNDED 16.5 POOR TO PIECES.THEY ARE ENEMIES OF POOR,MURDERERS,LOOTERS,PLUNDERERS,BLACKMAILERS,BATHAKHORS,TARGET KILLERS YET PRETEND SAINTS AND PIOUS.MAY ALLAH DECIMATE THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN TO DESTITUTION,LEPRROSY,TV,CANCER,AIDS,WORST TYPE OF DISEASES.MAKE THEIR CHILDREN CRIPLLED,BEGGARS THEY WAY MAKE THE POOR AND HAVE MADE THEM.MAY
    AZAB,BEFALL ON THEM SOONER THAN SOONEST.

  2. by requesting india to take back the muhajirs the mqm has shown its real face to the public.we always knew of mqm's links with RAW but now altaf the terrorist has himself revealed his love for india.for what 'ghalti' did he ask maafi from india??
    now the media of pakistan should stop their pro-mqm propaganda which fools no one as it is,the public knows who the bhattakhors and target killers are,the lies of the anchors chamchaas of mqm decieve no one.

  3. THE karachi tv chasnnels,ARY,SAmaa,CNBC,EXpress,newsone,PARTLY gEO ARE MQM AGENTS,RAW AGENTS,ENENMIES OF POOR SPOUTING POISON AGAINST PAKISTAN DAY AND NIGHT.ANchors l;ike THE BADAMI,DR DANISH,MUJHID BRELVI,SHAHZAd, IqBALS,MUSBASHAR rana,LUQMUN,NISAR,WARRIACH ARE AGENTS OF PPP or MQM.FROM 7PM TO 12 NIGHT THEY TERRORISE PEOPLE AND PROPOGATE FOR MQM FOR THEIR ANTI PAKISTAN POLITICS OF BLACKMAILING.THESE TV channels give 1000000000% more tv coverage to mqm with 0.5 percent votes and do their best to muddy the image of everyone MQM does not see eye to eye for that day and next day it could be somersault.DEVILS AND DEMONS MUST BE BANNED,BOTH tv CHANNELS ,THESE ANCHORS AND MQM mersons 1000 5 occupying tv programmes.they woth pppz,anp,mlq have ruined Pakistan.

  4. If ARMY HAS TO COME,IT MUST FIRST ASK; HOW COME AN ABSCONDER,NRO CONVICTED WITH CRIMINAL RECORD AND FIRS ,A BRITISH NATIONAL OWNING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WEALTH IN EUROPE ETC CAN DESPOTICALLY COMMAND POLITICS OF PAKISTAN,HIS PARTY AND ROUSE MUTINY AMONG DEFENSE FORCES IN LIVE TV SPEECHES FOR MONTHS,NOW ADVISES MQM PEOPLE TO STORE RATION AS IF WAR IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE,TALKS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING WHILE PPPZ COALITION PARTNER FOR FORTY MONTHS AND GOVERNOR -SIND BELONGING TO MQM AND SIGNALS OF MQM REJOINING PPPZ IN SIND,CENTER ETC.AFTER TWO SEATS WERE GIVEN TO MQM BY PPPZ:WHAT IS THIS TARGET KILLING ALL ABOUT.PERHAPS VERY BIG BLACKMAILING BARGAING CHIP TO DO WHAT.,DISINTEGRATE PAKISTAN OR PUNJAB?SURLT,MQM WILL JOIN PPPZ IN THIS SINISTER GAME WHWEN IN LAST FORTY MONTHS JOINT COALITION WITH ANIP AND NOW ML-Q,CHOUDRIES THEY HAVE KILLED MORE THAN 4000 POOR PEOPLE IN KARACHI AND LOOTED NATIONAL EXCHEQUER DRY AND BARREN AND POUNDED 16.5 POOR TO PIECES.THEY ARE ENEMIES OF POOR,MURDERERS,LOOTERS,PLUNDERERS,BLACKMAILERS,BATHAKHORS,TARGET KILLERS YET PRETEND SAINTS AND PIOUS.MAY ALLAH DECIMATE THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN TO DESTITUTION,LEPRROSY,TV,CANCER,AIDS,WORST TYPE OF DISEASES.MAKE THEIR CHILDREN CRIPLLED,BEGGARS THEY WAY MAKE THE POOR AND HAVE MADE THEM.MAY
    AZAB,BEFALL ON THEM SOONER THAN SOONEST.
    (worth repeating by a grieving mother)
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  5. Pakistan's Foreign Office should lodge a protest with the British Government about this British Subject's provocations leading to anarchy in Pakistan.

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