Karachi getting out of hand?
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Editorial
Daily Times
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The powerhouse of the MQM, the Coordination Committee which liaises directly with the leader in London, Mr Altaf Hussain, has made a threatening statement Sunday about quitting the governments in Sindh and Islamabad. It is greatly offended at the Sindh chief minister’s announcement of May 12 as holiday to prevent mutually competitive strikes by the MQM and the ANP in the city. The battle with the ANP, its so-called coalition partner in Islamabad, has become sharpened and may threaten the PPP’s overall political hold in the country.
The MQM says the Sindh government should detach itself from the “criminal elements” of the ANP. It demands action against the ANP for “supporting and protecting the Taliban in Karachi”. It has asked the army chief General Ashfaq Kayani and the ISI chief General Shuja Pasha to take action against certain bigwigs of the PPP government in Sindh, because “they are extending open support to the ANP which is involved in land grabbing and armed activities”.
Clearly mindful of what may transpire in Karachi on May 12, the MQM committee complained that President Zardari had failed to stop the illegal activities of “these elements”, while the Sindh chief minister had announced a public holiday on May 12 on the demand of the ANP. It asked why only Karachi had been made the stage of all such activities and not the NWFP, where the ANP leaders were being murdered by the Taliban. It cannot have missed the entry, on Sunday, of Mr Imran Khan of Tehreek-e Insaf into Karachi after a two-year ban on the MQM’s insistence, following his call for a Supreme Court inquiry into the May 12, 2007, murder of 37 people in Karachi which he clearly put at the door of the MQM.
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Daily Times
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The powerhouse of the MQM, the Coordination Committee which liaises directly with the leader in London, Mr Altaf Hussain, has made a threatening statement Sunday about quitting the governments in Sindh and Islamabad. It is greatly offended at the Sindh chief minister’s announcement of May 12 as holiday to prevent mutually competitive strikes by the MQM and the ANP in the city. The battle with the ANP, its so-called coalition partner in Islamabad, has become sharpened and may threaten the PPP’s overall political hold in the country.
The MQM says the Sindh government should detach itself from the “criminal elements” of the ANP. It demands action against the ANP for “supporting and protecting the Taliban in Karachi”. It has asked the army chief General Ashfaq Kayani and the ISI chief General Shuja Pasha to take action against certain bigwigs of the PPP government in Sindh, because “they are extending open support to the ANP which is involved in land grabbing and armed activities”.
Clearly mindful of what may transpire in Karachi on May 12, the MQM committee complained that President Zardari had failed to stop the illegal activities of “these elements”, while the Sindh chief minister had announced a public holiday on May 12 on the demand of the ANP. It asked why only Karachi had been made the stage of all such activities and not the NWFP, where the ANP leaders were being murdered by the Taliban. It cannot have missed the entry, on Sunday, of Mr Imran Khan of Tehreek-e Insaf into Karachi after a two-year ban on the MQM’s insistence, following his call for a Supreme Court inquiry into the May 12, 2007, murder of 37 people in Karachi which he clearly put at the door of the MQM.
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Labels: Judiciary, Karachi, Pakistan
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