When will they learn?
What Mustafa Kamal has managed to achieve so far is no more than the support of some half a dozen MQM turncoats. He has failed to win the sympathies of the MQM grass root activists despite appeals for general amnesty. The Sindhi nationalist parties have boycotted Kamal en bloc. Now that he has to put up a show of strength he is visiting provincial leaders of the PTI and ANP to invite them to his public meeting to make the gathering look respectable.
Accusing the MQM members of being RAW agents and calling for its ban indicates that Kamal has lost hope of ever making his party a viable replacement of the MQM as long as the later is present on the political scene. This amounts to an acceptance of defeat.
Among the positive achievements of the Rangers-led operation in Karachi is the suppression of the armed wing of the MQM. What is left behind is the political party purged of its sharp shooters, China cutters, extortionists and gangsters. Whether one likes it or not, the MQM as it exists now has established through successive by-elections that it still commands the support of the urban population of Sindh. There is a need to encourage the party to develop as a peaceful and law abiding mainstream political force instead of banning it which will not at all remove its hold over its constituency which it will continue to represent under a new name.
Allegations of a similar kind have been levelled against Jamaat-e-Islami, ANP and PPP in the past. A number of religious parties have been receiving funding from some of the gulf countries. All these have been spared because the charges could not have been proved in regular courts of law. The MQM remained a key ally of the King’s party knocked together by Musharraf. Sparing Musharraf and punishing MQM will be widely considered a discriminatory act and motives would be attributed. Banning political parties has never helped as the experience of NAP metamorphosing into ANP amply proves.
When will our establishment will learn lesson, i guess never.
The Editorial is biased with the exception that MQM still has grass-root support. How the future of politics will develop in this country, depends who is going to replace the 'dead horse (PPP) and routing PML(N). MQM has vote bank but it is splitting fast because they have killed thousands of Muhajirs in the name of Muhjir and has been playing in foreign hands for decades. They have caused vast financial loss to this country by way of Hartaals and have held this city hostage at gun-point for decades. Kamal's party is new entrant but has dared to say none other could. They will gain support in due course because most relatives of those self-murdered workers have not forgotton their dear ones and thousands more are rotting in Jail in line of duty.
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First we need to counter Musharraf because he brought MQM in power in 2001 to strength his position and gave free hand to MQM to do whatever they want. Its seems from current scenario that no one is talking about PM for some reason or other and only targeting MQM,which is unjustified.
Well written! The Kamal Drama is nothing but a time waste! Go deliver rather than cursing or blaming.
What you write may well be true and I have similar grievances against the party, but what I found more appalling was the insult to our collective intelligence the 'idara' insists on carrying out. I can only narrate personal experience, and not claim to predict sentiments across an entire ethnic community.
Many elections have come and gone without my casting a vote, but after the open bias in the recent Karachi operation and the Saulat Mirza bombshell during NA-246 elections I walked over to the govt. school and voted for MQM panel.
Mustafa Kamal is the latest puppet in this drama after PTI/JI ended up doing more harm than good to the whole 'vote against terrorism' platform by their smug arrogance. Sir it is you who are biased as you seem to be unaware that the people joining PSP are the very same tanzeemi types who used to be described as 'militant wing of a political party' in many a press release by you know who.
I voted in the local bodies elections 2015.
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