The news is that Rangers will be posted both inside and outside the polling booths. This is like bolting the stable door after the horses have fled. ID cards on a mass scale have already been snatched to curtail PTI votes. What are the Rangers doing about that? On the morning of the voting, MQM activists will station themselves all over Karachi to issue warnings to the scared voters as they leave their homes. This I have on the testimony of my nephews and nieces in Karachi. What will the Rangers do about this? If need be some prominent member of PTI will meet with a fatal accident, which will be made to look like a daily occurrence of purse and mobile phone snatchings. What will the Rangers do about this?
What I can’t understand for the life of me is that if MQM has a very large ethnic following in Karachi, which it appears to have, where is the need to use these strong arm tactics bordering on the murderous to keep the other contestants at bay. There is something not quite right in the State of Denmark.
KHURSHID ANWER
Lahore
