Convener MQM Dr Imran Farooq killed

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Karachi gang war reached London

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Uncle Altaf's days are over.

Farooq was just a catalyst

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A turbulent political history

A very good post by GUNNER.

An important point the JI was tactically armed by its god father Zia ul Haq and the free flow of weapons among the party members attracted all kind of criminals to this party infact eroding away its own creditablity and deattachment of anti-socialist intellactuals and business class which formed the foundation of this party. The biggest illict business in Pakistan is that of hasish and poppy which is operated from North the mainland of Pukhtoons so they found a warm welcome into the party for their well connected sources of weapon supplies.

During the height of 1992 unrest, my mammo who was the hardcore forerunner of JI bigotry and well armed with "gifted" weapons recieved his first confrontational shock. A young chap in our neighbourhood hardly 18-19 nick named nomi makes a dozen of so warning shots with his brand new AK-47 outside our home. Since that day the ties between us and them heavily soured despite he remained by good friend though I was younger by few years. He taught me how to drive a bike, car and later even the AK-47. In August 1993 he was murdered by someone outside his home with a gunshot.

What I mean to express by above story is the price people pay by their blood and life for egoistic satisfaction of few short sighted self imposed leaders.

After Mushraff crack down on Islamist, my mamoo ran like a proud jehadi to "infidel canada" for saving his ar$e.


And here is an intresting read from Global Security

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) / Mohajir Quami Movement [MQM]

 

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how can you say this??? I want to say only one thing "Allah knows best". who we are to judge that he is drama baz or not??

Dear, I have Perfect faith on my ALLAH That He Knows Best.

I said Just because of His Previous record. You can watch many videos on Youtube like this.

I think So On the behalf of Previous record , Making Guess is Not a sin.. ...

Regards,

 

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A turbulent political history


By Nadeem F. Paracha

Though the murder of Dr Imran Farooq may have closed yet another chapter on a famous MQM man, it does add to an ongoing episode involving the fate of various political activists from Karachi who have been part of shaping the city’s politics in the last 30 years or so.

I say this because Farooq belonged to that generation of young men and women who gave the politics of Karachi the kind of twist from which the city continues to reel.

This twist may appear to be wrapped in various violent and negative acts and vibes, but at the same time this was the kind of material that galvanised the country’s only major metropolis towards becoming an important political arena.

Till the late 1970s, Karachi’s importance was squarely based on its exemplary economic role. However, Karachi had (and still has) the most stunning array of ethnically and religiously diverse population in the country.

Also, till about 1977, the centre of political agitation in Pakistan was the city of Lahore, and both the ‘establishment’ and the political opposition had to put up a good show there to be taken seriously.

During that time, Karachi’s agitational politics was mostly exhibited on university and college campuses. Some prime examples in this respect include the 1953 students’ movement against the bureaucratic set-up of the old Muslim League government and the decisive 1968-69 student movement against the Ayub dictatorship.

Although a truly nationwide phenomenon, the protest and agitation in Karachi was mostly spearheaded by the left-wing National Students Federation (NSF). The movement in Karachi epitomised the peak of the progressive, left-wing student movement and its popularity in Pakistan.

The 1972 language riots was another episode. The mohajir (Urdu-speaking) majority of Karachi was incensed when the learning of the Sindhi language was made compulsory in schools and government offices by the government of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Hastily formed mohajir interest groups took the lead in the agitation and were supported by right-wing religious parties such as the Jamat-i-Islami (JI), whose student wing, the IJT, began making inroads into the city’s universities and colleges that till then were hotbeds of left-wing student activity.

Apart from these upheavals, Karachi remained the country’s economic and entertainment centre and its politics remained largely self-absorbed.

However, in 1977, on the eve of the agitational campaign against the government of Zulfiqar Bhutto, Karachi’s politics suddenly burst onto the mainstream. The campaign was kicked off by a nine-party alliance (the Pakistan National Alliance), led by the JI.

The movement was mainly supported by the country’s lower middle, middle and business and industrial classes.

Though a nationwide movement, its biggest rallies took place in Karachi. This was Karachi’s first major show of political strength. Leading the show in the city were cadres of the JI and the IJT, and many of these would later become the founding members of the All Pakistan Mohajir Students Organisation (APMSO), and subsequently, the MQM.

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The movement may have been launched to undermine Bhutto’s ‘socialist’ manoeuvres, however, the mohajir population’s aggressive participation in it had more to do with what they saw as the Bhutto regime’s ‘anti-mohajir’ policies.

Economic downturn brought on by the 1973-76 worldwide oil crises also played a role in the disenchantment.

It is also true that while the movement primarily led by religious parties wanted a ‘Nizam-i-Mustapha’ (Shariah), many mohajir cadres of the agitation were liberal in orientation — a fact that translated itself into the formation of the APMSO at the University of Karachi in 1978.

Founded by a young Altaf Hussain (formally associated with the IJT), its early members also included Imran Farooq and Azim Ahmad Tariq. The latter two had been politically active with the Liberal Students Federation at the university.

In 1981, the APMSO joined the progressive students alliance at the University of Karachi. The alliance, called the United Students Movement (USM), was leading the campaign on the campus against Ziaul Haq’s dictatorship.

The Zia dictatorship that had toppled the Bhutto regime started to work closely with the JI to wipe out progressive and leftist influences from politics and society. In this regard, educational institutions became the policy’s first targets.

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The first major political assassination to take place in Karachi was the work of Murtaza Bhutto’s clandestine Al-Zulfikar Organisation (AZO).

In September 1982, AZO men shot dead former JI member and pro-Zia politician, Zahoorul Hassan Bhopali in Karachi.

Earlier, in 1981, three murders had already taken place at the University of Karachi. IJT militants had shot dead NSF worker Qadeer Abid and then a USM activist Shaukat Cheema. A leading IJT man was mowed down by PSF militant, Sallamullah Tipu who would go on to join the AZO.

By 1983 tension and violence between progressive student groups and the Zia-backed IJT became so intense that the APMSO was shoved out and its leaders were ‘banned’ by IJT from entering the university’s premises.

This was when the APMSO began organising its units in the vicinities of mohajir-populated ‘gullies and mohallahs’ (streets and neighbourhoods).

In 1984, Zia banned student unions. In the sudden absence of the ballot on campuses, the bullet completely took over.

IJT was the most well armed student party in the city, followed by PSF and BSO. It was only natural that to stay in the race, APMSO too set out to get the ‘much needed’ hardware.

Some of the first firearms obtained by APMSO were ‘gifted’ to them (for ‘protection’ purposes), by some militants of the PSF and NSF in late 1983.


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In 1985, fierce riots between Karachi’s Mohajir community and the city’s migrant Pashtun population erupted when a Mohajir female student of a college was crushed to death by a public transport bus driven by a Pashtun.

Resentment was already brewing within Karachi’s Mohajir majority against the arrival of a large number of Afghan refugees who had been pouring into Pakistan ever since the start of the Afghan Civil War in 1979.

Much of the city’s public transport business fell in the hands of the Afghan refugees, and many Afghan refugees were also accused of running clandestine businesses involving the sale of guns and drugs.
Most of the refugees were Pashtuns, and since Karachi already had a significant Pashtun population, the troubles soon turned into vicious Mohajir-Pashtun riots.

These riots in which both sophisticated and crude, homemade weapons were used and in which hundreds of Karachiites lost their lives were one of the first signs of the fallout of Pakistan’s involvement in the CIA-backed anti-Soviet insurgency in Afghanistan.

The post-riots scenario saw MQM rise as the representative party of the Urdu- speaking population of Karachi.

In 1987, the MQM got its first major cache of weapons, when a number of AK-47s were sold to it by (ironically) the militant separatist Sindhi outfit, the Jeeay Sindh Students federation (JSSF).

This is also the time when MQM/APMSO is believed to have formed its first dedicated militant wing, the ‘Black Tigers.’

Sensing the withering away of IJT after the demise of Ziaul Haq and the election of Benazir Bhutto’s government, both APMSO and PSF tried to muscle in to fill the void created by the IJT’s erosion at the University of Karachi. During that government, MQM had become a coalition partner of the PPP.

The tussle to gain ground at the university soon led to a series of violent clashes between the two triumphant groups. The clashes then spilled out onto the streets.

The two major players to emerge from the scenario were PSF’s Karachi President Najib Ahmed and APMSO’s Khalid Bin Walid. Both were also said to be heading special militant cells of their respective organisations.

The first such cells to appear in the PPP/PSF was in 1978. They were mainly formed to tackle the Zia dictatorship’s heavy handed policies against the PPP. These cells then became highly militant when lead by PSF Karachi President, Salamullah Tipu in 1979.

A Mohajir, Tipu was a self-proclaimed Marxist who then joined the AZO in 1981. He was killed in Kabul (on Murtaza Bhutto’s instructions) in 1984.

PSF’s militant wing then came under the leadership of another Mohajir from the lower middle class, Najib Ahmed (in 1986). His group was instrumental in sidelining the IJT and then challenging the APMSO’s influence in Karachi’s educational institutions.

Najib was also accused of killing a number of APMSO militants before his own assassination in Karachi in 1990. The PSF accused APMSO’s Khaled Bin Walid for the murder.

Walid was said to be in-charge of MQM’s ‘Black Tigars’ group. Backed by the new Sindh Chief Minsiter Jam Sadiq Ali, this group was also accused of slaughtering a number of PSF and PPP men during the first Nawaz Sharif government.

A military crackdown was ordered (by the first Nawaz Sharif government) against the MQM in 1992.

In 1993, one of the founding members of MQM, Azim Ahmed Tariq was assassinated. The murder was blamed (by MQM) on the agencies. This was also when Imran Farooq went underground and re-emerged seven years later in London. He was being hunted by the military and the police which accused him of being a leading member of MQM’s militant wing.

Another militant group emerged in the MQM called the ‘Nadeem Commandos’ when the military (on the orders of Nawaz Sharif) began an operation against the MQM in Karachi.

This group was said to be led by APMSO militant Farooq Dada. In 1995, when the operation against the MQM fell in the hands of the second Benazir regime, Dada, and three other MQM workers, were shot dead by police in an alleged armed "encounter" near the Karachi Airport.

The same year, another former APMSO worker and leader of ‘Nadeem Commandos’ (according to police reports), was shot dead in a ‘police encounter’. That was Fahim Commando who is also said to have taken part in the assassination of Najib Ahmed in 1990.
The military and paramilitary operation against MQM lasted between 1992 and 1998. Hundreds of MQM activists lost their lives due to assassinations and torture.

The operation also saw the birth of MQM (Haqiqi) – a faction led by some former MQM militants and facilitated in this pursuit by the military intelligence agencies.

A number of MQM-H men too lost their lives during the many turf wars that the group fought with the MQM throughout the 1990s.
As the decade saw secular political entities like the PPP/PSF and MQM/APMSO locked in a deadly embrace in Karachi, the void in this respect began to be filled by clandestine Sunni sectarian and extremist organisations. Their entry in Karachi’s political arena went almost unchecked.

With the near demise of MQM-H, many of its activists became part of the Barelvi-dominated extremist organisation, the Sunni Tehrik. The Tehrik had emerged to challenge the arrival of the Wahhabi/Deobandi-dominated extremist organisations in the city.

Though the new millennium turned out to be stable compared to what went on in the city in the 1990s, and the state finally recognised the electoral strength of the MQM in Karachi, throughout the 2000s certain episodes reflected the fall-out of the violence of the preceding decade.

In 2000 Khalid Bin Walid was assassinated. After 2002, a number of police officers who were involved in the operation against the MQM too became victims of targeted killings.

Then in 2006, powerful bombs ripped across a huge Sunni Tehrik rally, eliminating the party’s entire leadership.

Then in May 2007, Karachi’s streets exploded with violence, the kind that the city had not seen since the 1990s. The MQM, which was a coalition partner of the Musharraf-led government, had opposed the entry of the deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry (who had been deposed by Musharraf and was then leading a protest movement along with the PPP and the PML-N).

MQM is accused as the main culprit behind the May 12 violence but as the scenes of the deadly gun fights on the streets that day would suggest, almost each and every participating group was heavily armed.

The main gun fights took place between MQM militants up against PPP/PSF and ANP gunmen. Almost 40 to 60 people lost their lives that day, and Chief Justice Iftikhar had to cancel his trip inside the city.

However, as MQM became a coalition partner of the new PPP-led government, Karachi ironically became the most peaceful city in the country, especially in the face of the terrorist attacks by the Taliban taking place in the Punjab and in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

But this peace is still not about the ethnic tensions that prevail in the city. Karachi may not be a hotbed of extremist thought and action, but off and on, it continues to face waves of targeted killings.

These waves are very much the echoes of what took place in the city in the 1990s. Many MQM, MQM-H, ANP, PPP and Sunni Tehrik men and police officers who have been targeted in these waves, one way or the other, have had some kind of direct or indirect connection with what transpired in the 1990s.

Perhaps Imran Farooq’s murder too is part of this cycle?

DAWN.COM | Metropolitan | Karachi: A turbulent political history

Good sumary by Nadeem paracha

 

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I would like to share something I read on South Asian Terrorism Portal About MQM...

The most potent threat to Pakistan’s internal security in the late Nineteen Eighties and early Nineties was posed by militia from the Mohajir community. Originally formed as the Mohajir Quomi Movement (MQM), it is now split into two factions. The faction led by the founder Altaf Hussain was renamed Muttahida Quomi Mahaz and is commonly referred to as MQM (A). A breakaway faction, created in 1992, retains the original name Mohajir Quomi Movement - with the suffix Haqiqi which means real - and is commonly referred to as MQM (H). The two factions have been responsible for several incidents of urban terrorism even as the MQM (A) participates in Pakistan’s electoral process. After a series of strong measures taken by the State in 1998, the MQM (A) has largely reoriented itself into an exclusively political outfit. In its latest display of clout in Mohajir dominated areas, it called for a boycott of local body elections held in July 2001 and ensured a low turnout in areas dominated by its cadre.

The MQM sought to portray itself, in its initial years as an organisation of Mohajirs. This ethnic term refers to refugees from India who settled in Karachi and other urban centres of Sindh province. They now constitute the largest segment in Sindh’s urban population. Largely natives of India’s Bihar and Uttar Pradesh provinces, this community maintains a distinct identity for itself. In the immediate post-partition period, the community formed one of the most influential lobbies in Pakistan having been closely associated with the movement for the country and its founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. With the increasing power of the military over the State apparatus, the community found its pre-eminent position being increasingly usurped by the Punjabi dominated military-bureaucratic formation that effectively ruled Pakistan since Gen. Ayub’s coup in 1958.

The first assertions of a distinct ethnic identity were made by the All Pakistan Mohajir Students Organisation" (APMSO) founded by Altaf Hussain in Karachi in 1978. Altaf Hussain went on, in 1984, to form the MQM. For two years, the outfit maintained a low profile reportedly concentrating on building its cadre base in Karachi and Hyderabad. It came on the national stage with a massive rally in Karachi on August 8. Ever since it has been a major actor in Pakistan’s politics even as it maintains an armed cadre that has repeatedly indulged in urban terrorism. In 1992, going against the civilian political executive, the army reportedly encouraged a split in the outfit helping create the MQM (H) under the leadership of Afaq Ahmed and Aamir Khan, who were earlier top members of MQM’s armed wing. To disguise itself as a broad social formation, the outfit dropped the term Mohajir from its title and renamed itself the Muttahida Quomi Mahaz (United National Front)

Violence has always accompanied the outfit’s political activities. It began with the first public meeting on August 8, 1986, which was accompanied by aerial firing, street violence and damage to public property by participants. Two months later, on October 31, rioting in Karachi and Hyderabad, another MQM (A) stronghold, left 12 persons dead. Altaf Hussain and ten other leaders of the outfit were arrested on November 2 that year which only increased the street violence in Mohajir dominated cities. On December 14, the outfit’s secretary general Dr Imran Farooq claimed that the situation can come under control only if Altaf Hussain is released. Almost on cue, violence flared up that night and the next day leaving 120 persons dead in Karachi.

Violence continued, allegedly perpetrated by MQM, despite the outfit entering into an alliance with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in 1988 and participating in a coalition government at the Federal level. The two parties had signed a 54 point agreement commonly known as the Karachi Accord just before the elections held in December that year. News reports suggested that most violence was between supporters of the MQM and the Jiye Sindh Movement, an organisation purpotedly fighting the cause of native Sindhis. Another rival with which the MQM frequently indulged in violent clashes was the Punjabi-Pukhtoon Ittehad (PPI), an outfit comprising of armed extremists from the Pukhtoon and Punjabi communities. Random attacks by armed activists of the warring groups on unarmed civilians were the major cause for casualties. In May 1989, the MQM walked out of the PPP led coalition in Sindh and five months later, from the federal government, accusing the PPP of failing to honour its promises outlined in the Karachi Accord.

The press to was a victim of the MQM’s terror strategies. Several newspapers, including the Dawn, Jang, identified by the outfit as non-symphathetic to the ‘movement’ were targeted for enforced boycotts.

Following reports of an imminent army crackdown on the outfit, Altaf Hussain left for UK on January 1, 1992 and has been in exile since. Despite the flight of its leader, the outfit’s terrorist arm continued to operate until 1998. Its political arm too faded into insignificance after the October 1999 coup in Pakistan.

The mid nineties in urban Sindh was marked by consistent strike calls from the MQM which included an announcement in July 1995 that weekly strikes on Fridays and Saturdays would be observed. Most MQM strikes were accompanied by violence leaving scores dead in their wake.

The outfit’s leadership, particularly Altaf Hussain, has been described by most analysts, as opportunists. The political platforms adopted by the outfit have been forwarded as evidence. After striking a deal, termed as the Karachi Accord, with Benazir Bhutto’s PPP, the outfit switched alliances and teamed up with Nawaz Sharief’s, Pakistan Muslim League (PML) in 1992. In Pakistan’s predominantly two party set-up, MQM which has time and again proved itself as the third largest political force, has swung between the two dominant parties and joined several ruling coalitions at the federal level and in Sindh. The elected local bodies in Karachi and Hyderabad have been overwhelmingly dominated by the MQM (A).

Major Incidents

2002

May 15: An Anti-terrorism court in Karachi sentences two MQM-A activists to life for killing a police personnel on July 21, 1998 in Liaquatabad.

May 2: 300 MQM-A workers are arrested from various locations in Karachi, Hyderabad and other cities throughout Sindh province.

April 26: Two top leaders of the MQM-A are killed by unidentified assailants in Karachi.

April 22: A Sindh court exonerates 11 MQM-A activists, including former Sindh Governor and two former Members of the Sindh Provincial Assembly (MPAs), of all charges in the April 24, 1995-Mir Garden case. Three persons were killed and two police personnel injured in that incident.

April 19: MQM-A chief Altaf Hussain demands a new Constitution for Pakistan.

April 13: MQM-A chief Altaf Hussain urges President Pervez Musharraf to grant ‘complete’ autonomy to smaller provinces, including Sindh.


April 9: An MQM-A activist is killed by unidentified gunmen in North Nazimabad, Karachi.


January 7: Two unidentified assailants kill an activist of the MQM-A in Karachi.

2001

December 28: An MQM-A activist is killed in Shah Faisal Colony, Karachi.

December 9: Altaf Hussain claims that missing party workers reportedly arrested by law enforcement agencies have finally been killed.

November 22: The brothers of a former MQM-A cadre, in a revenge attack kill, two MQM-A activists. They attack the MQM-A cadres after they find the bullet-riddled body of their abducted brother in Baldia Town, Karachi.

November 11: Unidentified gunmen kill a former sector ‘commander’ of the MQM-A in Jauharabad, Karachi.

October 10: MQM-A chief Altaf Hussain says his party condemns all forms of terrorism and killings of innocent people, whether it is in the USA or in any other part of the world.

October 2: An MQM-A cadre is killed in an encounter with Karachi Police.

September 28: An MQM-A activist is killed and another injured in an armed attack on Jamshed Quarters in Karachi.

September 26: Nine MQM-A activists are injured in two bomb blasts in Karachi.

September 17: MQM-A Chief Altaf Hussain, in a statement from his London headquarters, says people of Pakistan in general, and Sindh in particular, must not "get distracted on the propaganda by the so-called religious and Jihadi organisations."

September 5: A leader and 14 activists of the MQM-A are acquitted in different cases by the courts in Karachi.

August 23: MQM-A deputy convener Shaikh Liaquat Hussain claims in Karachi that the party’s workers are being arrested and tortured.

August 22: Three MQM-A cadres are arrested in Karachi in separate cases.

June 6: MQM-A convenor Imran Farooq appeals to the Supreme Court to take suo motto action on a threat levelled by the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) to assassinate MQM-A chief Altaf Hussain.

June 3: MQM-A members of the suspended Sindh Assembly oppose the Federal government’s on-going arms recovery drive.

June 1: A former MQM-A activist is killed by unidentified gunmen in Liaquatabad, Karachi

May 31: Sindh High Court acquits nine MQM-A activists in former Governor Hakim Saeed assassination case following an appeal against their conviction pronounced earlier by an Anti-Terrorism Court.

May 22: MQM-A co-ordination committee convenor Imran Farooq claims in Karachi that the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) is indulging in ‘baseless propaganda’ against Altaf Hussain, and implicating him in the May 18-killing of Sunni Tehreek chief Salim Qadri.

May 8: MQM-A deputy cnvenor Khalid Maqbool Siddiqi claims in Karachi that state agencies were responsible for the May 7-Karachi bomb blast in which one person was killed and nine others injured.

March 24: Karachi anti-terrorism court acquits a former Provincial Legislator of the MQM-A and nine other party activists in a case on which a police personnel was killed on July 28, 1999 in the city.

February 28: MQM-H chief Afaq Ahmad claims in Karachi that Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider is "patronising the London-based ‘terrorist group’.

February 23: MQM-A chief Altaf Hussain offers to hold a dialogue with the Federal government.

February 20: An MQM-A leader is acquitted in two cases by two different additional district and sessions courts in Karachi.

February 17: Two MQM-A activists arrested earlier on October 9, 2000, in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, are sentenced to death by an ant-terrorism court in Karachi for anti-national activities.

January 3: Senior MQM-A activist of Ranchor Lines, Karachi, Mohammad Shoaib, is arrested.

January 2: MQM-A chief Altaf Hussain and 13 associates declared 'absconders' by Karachi court.

2000


December 22: An additional district and sessions court in Karachi declares MQM-A chief Altaf Hussain and three other activists absconders in a case pertaining to the killing of two persons during an MQM-A sponsored strike in Karachi in June 1995.


December 20: A former MQM-A member and his brother were killed by two armed assailants in Liaquatabad, Karachi.


December 15: Five MQM-A activists acquitted by a Karachi court in a case regarding an attack on police personnel during a shootout in Liaquatabad in 1998.


December 8: Two MQM-A activists are killed by unidentified gunmen in Karachi.

November 11: Six MQM-A activists are arrested from Sukkur for their alleged involvement in the November 6-bomb blast.

November 6: Bomb explodes at the Karachi marketing office of the Jang group of newspapers. MQM-A cadre Iqbal Macha is prime suspect for the attack.

October 29: MQM-A demands amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan.

October 25: An MQM-A activist is killed by unidentified gunmen in Karachi.


October 2: News report says 1,105 activists and supporters of MQM-A are in official custody and a committee would review all the cases.
Government calls for a report from the High Commission in India on the visit of an MQM- A delegation to that country.

September 21: An MQM-A worker is killed at a Karachi playground.

July 9: An MQM-A activist in police custody, in Karachi, states that the top-leadership of the party has directed him to kill 28 fellow cadres for their suspected involvement in various crimes.

July 4: A Karachi court issues arrest warrants against an MQM-A woman leader, Nasreen Jalil, and some other activists on charges of rioting and obstructing police in performing their duties.

March 30: MQM-A convenor Imran Farooq alleges that a Pakistan Army officer had formed groups in connivance with Karachi police to kill MQM-A cadres.

February 28: Widespread violence is reported in Karachi following a strike call given by Jeay Sindh Quami Mahaz and the MQM-A outfit to protest sacking of staff from the state-run Pakistan Steel as well as for the police ill-treating party supporters.

January 17: Nine persons are killed and 25 others injured in a bomb explosion in Karachi. Police blame the MQM-A for the act and claim that 16 terrorists linked to the outfit have been arrested. MQM (A) denies the charge.

1999

November 26: Senior MQM-A leader Farooq Sattar is arrested after surrendering to the Military Intelligence.

September 9: MQM-A secretary general Imran Farooq surfaces in London after being in hiding for seven years and claims his life is in danger in Pakistan.

August 1: Seven MQM-A office-bearers, including a Member of the National Assembly, and two Members of the Sindh Provincial Assembly, resign from the "basic membership" of the party owing to "fundamental differences with MQM chief Altaf Hussain over policy matters".

July 18: MQM-A announces international hunger strike and protests inside and outside Pakistan to protest the "extra-judicial killings" of its cadres.


January 30: Three Urdu newspapers, Jang, Amn, and Parcham, are charged with sedition for carrying an MQM-A advertisement seeking donations for "victims of police excesses" and to compensate those "killed, tortured or victimised by the police and other security agencies during their crackdown against the party".


January 24: UK grants political asylum and residency to MQM-A chairman Altaf Hussain. Pakistan lodges protest.

1998

October 31: Following the MQM-A’s refusal to meet the Prime Minister’s deadline, Federal rule is imposed in Sindh and a massive crackdown is launched by security agencies.

October 28: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief accuses an MQM-A Member of the Sindh Provincial Assembly (MPA) and seven other activists of involvement in the murder of Hakim Saeed. Sharief sets a three-day deadline on the outfit to hand-over the assassins, failing which he threatens to call -off the alliance.

October 17: Former Sindh Governor Hakim Mohd Saeed is assassinated by alleged MQM-A terrorists.

September 20: MQM-A decides to resume support to Pakistan Muslim League at Federal level and in Sindh without joining the Ministry.

August 26: MQM-A resigns from the ruling coalition in Sindh province.

August 14: MQM-A Ministers in the Federal Cabinet resign protesting the government’s failure to protect the outfit’s activists.

August 12: 10 MQM-A activists are killed by unidentified gunmen.

June : 140 persons are killed during various instances of ethnic violence.

April 30: Sindh Chief Minister Liaquat Jatoi withdraws all cases filed against MQM-A Legislators.

April 18: MQM-A announces the continuation of the alliance with Pakistan Muslim League in Sindh.


March 21: Six persons, including MQM-H leader Imtiaz Ahmed Khan and two relatives, are killed by unidentified gunmen in Karachi.
Federal government asks Sindh government to furnish details on steps being taken to counter MQM-H imposed ‘no-go’ areas.

March 19: MQM-A extends ultimatum to one month.

March 17: MQM-A serves a 48-hour ultimatum on the Sindh Chief Minister to ensure the removal of ‘no-go areas’ in Karachi––areas that are the strongholds of the MQM-H.

February 28: 100 MQM-H members are arrested in crackdown launched after the February 22- Korangi-attack.

February 22: Eight civilians are killed outside a mosque at Korangi, Karachi, in MQM factional rivalry.

February 1: Sindh High Court acquits Altaf Hussain and 18 co-accused in the case of the abduction of an Army officer.

January 10: Three persons, including a woman, are killed and five more injured in indiscriminate firing during MQM factions’ clash.

1997

October 2: Three persons are killed in factional rivalry in Karachi.

September 27: MQM-H asks the British government to deport Altaf Hussain from London.

August 14: MQM-A opposes legislation on terrorism.

July 26: MQM-A renames itself as Muttahida Qaumi Mahaz.

July 9: Three MQM-A workers are arrested on Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

July 6: Four persons are killed in MQM-A violence in Karachi.

June 18 : Government invites MQM-A for talks.


June 17: Four persons are killed in factional rivalry in Karachi.
Altaf Hussain asks workers to close down all the liaison offices of the party.

June 10: 12 persons are killed in wave of violence in Karachi, allegedly perpetrated by MQM-A activists.

May 4: 70 MQM-H activists are arrested in Karachi

May 2: 500 MQM-H activists are arrested in Karachi

April 16: Two MQM-H activists are killed by MQM-A in Karachi.

April 12: Three MQM-H workers are killed and another injured in separate attacks by activistrs of the rival MQM-A in Karachi.

April 1: Sindh government announces formation of a Compensation Committee to review cases of compensation for persons and families and their legal heirs affected during the period October 1993 to November 1997.

February : MQM-A concludes an accord with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief and joins the coalition government at the Federal-level and in Sindh. In the accord, Sharief agrees to institute a judicial probe into the allegedly deaths of MQM-A supporters in police custody or encounters or attacks by terrorists; he also agrees to grant compensation to the families of the deceased.

January 20: MQM-A National Assembly candidate from Rahim Yar Khan Javed Mazari is arrested along with another cadre.

January 18: Sindh government grants parole and releases MQM-A senators Aftab Ahmed Sheikh and Nasreen Jalil.

1996

October 10: United States Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) refuses to grant asylum to three senior MQM-A leaders, including senior vice chairman Saleem Shahzad.

October 5: Over two dozen MQM activists are arrested following a series of different encounters in different places in Karachi.

August 21: Hafiz Osama Qadri, MQM-A leader and former member of the Sindh Provincial Assembly, is arrested.

June 16: Karachi police arrest MQM-A cadres Azhar Sayyan––wanted in more than 50 cases––and Naseem Pajama, wanted in 27 cases.

June 1: Two MQM-A terrorists are arrested in Karachi.

April 12: MQM-A delegation goes to Geneva for United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) session.

April 10: MQM-A cadre Nadeem Chita, carrying reward of Rs one million, is arrested from Azizabad, Karachi.

April 9: Four MQM-A cadres, allegedly involved in 13 cases of murder, six cases of abduction and several other crimes, are arrested in Multan.

April 2: Shamim Ahmed, MQM-A leader and Minister in the Sindh government announces the formation of another MQM faction.

March 5: Two abducted persons are rescued from MQM-A cadres in Karachi.

February 28: Three MQM-A workers reportedly confess of a plot to kill religious leaders with the assistance of a sectarian group.


February 1: MQM-A leader, Ajmal Dehlvi warns government that the outfit would disrupt World Cup cricket matches to be held in Pakistan.


Four MQM activists are arrested in Saudi Arabia.

January 29: MQM-A demands reconstitution of the government team conducting negotiations with the outfit.


January 17: Federal government grants Rs. 500 thousand for a proposed library being built by the MQM-A.


Rockets are fired at MQM-H headquarters in Landhi. MQM-H chief Afaq Khan accuses the rival MQM-A for this attack.

January 4: MQM team meets US Ambassador to Pakistan Johan Rolzeman.


January 3: Three civilians are killed during an MQM-organised strike in Karachi.


MQM-A lays down new conditions for talks with the Federal government.

1995

September 8: Five MQM-A activists are arrested in Karachi.

August 15: Top MQM-A activist Tariq ‘Commando’ is arrested in Karachi.

August 6: Top MQM-A activist Fahim ‘Commando’ and three of his associates are arrested in Karachi.

August 3: In retaliation to the August 2-killing of top MQM-A cadres, 24 persons, including a Sub-divisional Magistrate, are killed in Karachi.

August 2: Top MQM-A terrorist Farooq ‘Dada’ and three of his associates are killed in Karachi.

July 17: Federal government and MQM-A agree to refrain from making provocative statements.

July 11: Talks begin between the Federal government and MQM-A.

July 5, 6, 13 & 24: 10 MQM-A activists are killed and six more arrested in a series of raids on MQM-A bases in Karachi. A large cache of arms and ammunition is seized.

July: MQM-A announces weekly strikes on Friday and Saturday until its demands for more rights are met. Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto responds and says MQM-A’s violence is aimed at carving out a separate Province for more than eight million Mohajirs living in Karachi and Hyderabad


June: 10 Sindhi-speaking officials are killed by alleged MQM-A activists in Karachi.


MQM-A activists attack police and civilian targets employing guns, rocket and bombs in Karachi.

June 24: A train carrying arms for SFs is looted and burnt down by MQM-A activists.

June 15: 24 persons, including 10 Sindhis, are killed in Karachi.

June 4: 10 persons are killed by MQM-A activists.

May 22: MQM-A observes Mourning Day.

May 18: 15 persons are killed in terrorist attacks in several parts of Karachi.

May 5: US Embassy announces that issuing visas from Karachi would be stopped because of the prevalence of terrorist violence in the city.

1994

November 11: Indiscriminate firing by suspected MQM-A gunmen kills eight persons, including an Air Force officer in Karachi.

September 26: Three MQM-A activists are arrested and a large cache of weapons is seized in several raids on their hideouts in Karachi.

September 17: Eight persons are killed in indiscriminate firing allegedly by MQM-A gunmen.

August 8: Altaf loyalists in Karachi allegedly kill a top-MQM-H leader.

July 13: Six persons are killed in an attack on a bus in Karachi.

June: Altaf Hussain and 19 other MQM members sentenced in absentia by a Karachi court to 27 years imprisonment for abducting and torturing an Army intelligence officer, Major Kaleem, and his four associates in June 1991.

June 28: Suspected MQM-A activists kill seven police personnel, including an officer who had arrested several MQM-A gunmen.

June 20: A court in Karachi issues non-bailable warrants against Altaf Hussain in connection with the murder of a Senator in May 1990.

June 4: MQM-A releases Charter of Demands.

March 6: Suspected MQM-A activists kill five security force (SF) personnel, including an Army Captain, in Karachi.

1993

May 1: Azim Tariq is killed allegedly by MQM-A cadres.

February 10: 13 persons are killed in a bomb attack in Karachi.

1992

November 27: MQM-A Chairman Azim Tariq comes over-ground and disowns Altaf Hussain.

July 19: Sindh Chief Minister disassociates himself from MQM-A.

June 29: MQM-A members resign their seats in the Federal and Sindh assemblies.

June: MQM dissidents led by Afaq Ahmed and Aamir Khan formally launch the Haqiqi (real) MQM, subsequently known by its sobriquet MQM (H).

June 27: MQM-A breaks away from the ruling alliance at the Federal level.

June 22: Cases are filed against 13 MQM-A leaders, including Altaf Hussain.

June 19: Army is deployed in Karachi and curfew is declared to prevent factional clashes within MQM.

May 28: Federal government launches military operation against "dacoits and terrorists" in Sindh.

May 19: The Altaf Hussain faction of MQM clashes with rebels in the party and a series of killings and abductions follow.

January 1: Altaf Hussain leaves for London on a self-imposed exile.

1991

October 1: Prominent journalist Mohammad Salahuddin’s house is bombed allegedly by MQM activists in Karachi

March 3: MQM leader Badar Iqbal is expelled from the party for financial embezzlement

February 21: Federal government postpones indefinitely the process of collecting population census.

April 30: Two Japanese students allegedly abducted by MQM activists for ransom are released after 45 days in captivity.

February : 14 persons are killed and 26 more inured in separate incidents of violence.

January 3: The Jam Sadiq-led MQM government in Sindh decides to set up four special courts.

1990

August 22: 27 persons are killed and 55 more injured in firing on MQM camps in Karachi.

July 13: 45 persons are killed in a bomb blast in Hyderabad.

June 6: President Ishaq Khan proposes all-party conference on Sindh situation. MQM refuses to participate.

May 9-10: 16 persons are killed in Karachi violence.

April 17-30: 11 persons are killed in Hyderabad violence

April 12: MQM rejects government’s offer for peace talks.

April 7: Altaf Hussain commences fast-unto-death.

March 31: Karachi University reopens.

February 6-9: 64 persons are killed during an MQM-organised anti-government demonstration in Karachi.

January 30 –February 3: 18 persons are killed in anti-government demonstrations in Hyderabad.

1989

December 12-25: 21 persons are killed in Hyderabad violence and nine others in Karachi.

October 23: MQM unilaterally pulls out of the Karachi Accord and quits the ruling coalition at the Federal level.

October 13: Two police officers are killed, even as Altaf Hussain meets President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in Karachi.

September 22: Sindh Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police says MQM is a terrorist outfit and not a political organisation.

September 17-19: Nine persons are killed and 24 others injured during riots in Hyderabad

August 19: 11 persons, including a police personnel, are killed by alleged MQM gunmen in Karachi

August 13: Seven persons are killed by suspected MQM gunmen in Karachi.

July 16-23: 10 persons are killed in violence in Hyderabad.

June 1: Three Federal Ministers meet MQM leaders in a bid to save Karachi Accord.

May 30: Talks are held between the then Punjab Chief Minister, Nawaz Sharief and Altaf Hussain for political co-operation.

May 1: Three MQM Ministers resign from the Sindh provincial government.

April 6: 10 persons are killed and 40 others wounded in incidents of firing in Hyderabad.

March 18: 10 persons are killed and 15 others injured by unidentified gunmen in Karachi.

February 23: Karachi University vice-chancellor’s office is burnt down by suspected MQM cadres.

1988

December: Benazir Bhutto is elected Prime Minister with support from the MQM. MQM joins the coalition government at the Federal level and in Sindh.

November: General Elections held in Pakistan following Gen. Zia’s death. Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) concludes a political accord with the MQM, known popularly as the Karachi Accord, to contest jointly.

October 1: Suspected MQM activists kill 90 Sindhis in separate attacks in Karachi.

August 30: MQM activists kill a Karachi University student.

July 21: Women MQM activists storm a Karachi police station and free 18 arrested persons.

July 17: Karachi Mayor Aftab Sheikh is attacked. Eight persons are killed in riots that followed.

June 18: Six persons are killed in violence in Hyderabad

April 30- May 9: 31 persons are killed in Karachi street violence.

March 1: Four persons are killed and several others injured during violence in Karachi.

February 4: Six persons are killed in violence in Karachi

January 18: Four persons are killed in clashes between MQM and PPI activists.

January 10: Five persons are killed in stabbing and other incidents of violence; several others are injured in Karachi. The Army is called in.

1987

November: MQM wins a majority of seats at the local-level elections in Karachi and Hyderabad, and emerges successful in other urban areas of Sindh.

October 31: Two persons are killed and 85 others injured in violence during an MQM-strike in Karachi. Senior police officials are injured in violence in Hyderabad.

September 29: MQM spokesperson says party regards Khan Abdul Wali Khan and Abdul Ghaffar Khan as the true representatives of Pukhtoons.

August 30: Altaf Hussain courts arrest in Karachi.

August 28: Sindh government orders arrest of August 26-rioteers. 160 persons, including leaders of the PPI, are arrested but Altaf Hussain escapes.

August 26: Nine persons are killed and 80 others injured in Karachi riots.

July 22 - August 30: 22 persons killed and 300 others injured in clashes between MQM and a rival group, Punjabi-Pukhtoon Ittehad (PPI). Besides, five police personnel are killed and 38 others injured during riots in this period.

June 21: MQM Chairman calls for boycott of Jang for its "anti-Mohajir policy". The newspaper’s office in Hyderabad is burnt down.

May 21: One person killed in riots over the arrest of MQM workers in Karachi.

February 20-21: 16 persons injured in street violence in Karachi.

January 31: Altaf Hussain says in Liaquatabad that Mohajirs "will have to arrange for their own security"

1986

December 20: MQM Chairman Azim Ahmad Tariq demands justice for Mohajirs and advises Pakistan President Zia-ul Haq to issue arms licenses.

December 14: 50 persons killed in Karachi; The Army is called-in and curfew declared.

December 9: One person killed and 40 injured during clashes following MQM’s call for strike in Karachi.

November 21: 30 persons injured in firing in Karachi.

November 18: MQM cadres fire in the air and disrupt a cricket match at Hyderabad’s Niaz Stadium.

November 3: 10 persons killed in hand-grenade attacks and six others in street violence in Karachi.

November 2: Altaf Hussain and 10 other leaders are arrested on charges of attempt to murder and rioting. 72 other activists arrested with arms and explosives in different areas of Karachi.

October 31: 12 persons killed during riots in Karachi. Riots spread to Hyderabad where seven persons are killed.

October 25: Altaf Hussain says in Hyderabad, Sindh, that Mohajir youth should "collect arms. If our rights are not given to us, we will use every kind of force".

August 8: MQM’s first public meeting at Karachi's Nishtar park is marked by aerial firing, street violence and damage of public property.

1984

March 18: Mohajir Quomi Movement (MQM) is launched.

1978

Altaf Hussain founds the All Pakistan Mohajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi.


Further more it was speculated that Dr saab had a considerable backing in the Bihar faction of MQM and perhaps was about to start his own new political career because of the rift between the "Bhai" and him. These MQM workers have a common slogan... "Jo Quaid Ka Ghaddar Hay... Woh Maut Ka Haqdaar Hay".... And as one of the gentleman has pointed out that he probably met with the same fate as Mr. Azeem. MQM is a fascist organization... with the likes of Italian Mafia... And I personally think that its the Don (Bhai) who perpertrated all this... He's a good actor though! Bravo... may his soul rest in peace....

 

[Sal-adin]

Here is the link if somebody wants to read it...

Muttahida Quomi Mahaz ,Terrorist Group of Pakistan

 

[GOD OF WAR]

MQM is definately no more than a ruthless crime syndicate, it is a terrorist organisation, involved in antistate activities, and also involved with the CIA/MI6/MI5/RAW/MOSSAD in n their infamous plan to desimate Pakistan.

Canada also recognises MQM as a terror outfit on a government level and a few years back deported a few MQM activists oin the same account.

It is of critical importance for the National Security of Pakistan that MQM is neutralised!

 

[pak-marine]

MQM is definately no more than a ruthless crime syndicate, it is a terrorist organisation, involved in antistate activities, and also involved with the CIA/MI6/MI5/RAW/MOSSAD in n their infamous plan to desimate Pakistan.

yeh yeh dont you think its been a while and it has more or less has become a habit to blame our problems on RAW , MOSSAD & CIA ... ""there is no one conspiring if there was one some one should have been caught by now ""there is no proof except non stop silly rant . It pakistanis conspiring against each other MQM is dealing with AlQaida & Taliban threat in karachi because military , agencies and law enforcement are either not bothered or are ignoring this threat.



Karachi now provides an entire ‘infrastructure’ for terrorist organisations to flourish. The TTP, Taliban and al Qaeda, facing some pressure in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA, continue to pour into the port city, further damaging an already dwindling Pakistani economy. The city is already a safe haven for Islamist terrorists, and is evolving as a significant theatre of violence. Unless extremist networks are uprooted now, the ‘descent into anarchy’ that has been noted across Pakistan’s other provinces may well come to afflict the country’s commercial capital.

 

[pak-marine]

 

[Meengla]

Here are some more rather rambling but, hopefully, pertinent thoughts:
1) My final break with MQM came when they attacked the offices of Jang newspaper in Karachi way back in the 80s because the newspaper did not give prominent coverage to Dr. Farooq Sattar's wedding ceremony. Not only did MQM attack the offices but also next day they justified on the ground that a prominent politician was ignored by Jang. Fascism at its height! That was way before MQM was very powerful--sometime in mid-to-late 80s. That kind of intolerance was, hitherto, unseen from Pakistan's political parties.
2) I remember that, on the campus of the University of Karachi, I started to see MQM, and indeed the whole 'Mohajir' grievances, in context of Pakistan's larger society. I saw that we New Sindhis were really privileged, relatively of course. And so I started to express those views to the APMSO (the student wing of MQM) saying that Mohajirs are well off and should not complain too much. I think they were disappointed in me and one of them did say that: 'So we are better off but does that mean we should be still exploited?' He may have thought I was a traitor. I think that guy was wrong morally. When you have more personally, you should give to the others. When you have more as a community, you should help the less fortunate ones.
Which brings me to my next point:
3) The 'Language Riots' of the early 70s was short-sighted and paranoid reaction of we Urdu speakers (Note, I use 'Urdu Speakers', 'Mohajirs', and 'New Sindhis' interchangeably--New Sindhi is my preference though). What was asked by the PPP government was to make Sindhi as another language of education in Sindh. A second language. We New Sindhis were NOT asked to give up Urdu. Indeed, having Urdu as the Lingua Franca of Pakistan was a given from 1948-on in the then W. Pakistan. But we New Sindhis were myopic. We rebelled. We propagandized that Urdu was going to be replaced. We started the graffitis like 'Let's make Karachi a separate province' after that. We were ingrats. Shortsighted. Paranoid. Supremacists. Learning another language is a great! Being given an opportunity to learn that without compromising your mother tongue is even better. Think of the economic opportunities? Think of how it may enrich you culturally?
4) Finally, MQM has been a new phenomomon. Zia ul Haq's Martial only accelerated those feelings in New Sindhis. The ingredients were there. MQM came as the ugly conclusion of that. Yet, MQM can evolve out--evolution is not only genetic, it is also political, but the psychopath Altaf Hussein needs to leave the pulpit first.
Are you listening Mr. Hussein?

 

[GOD OF WAR]

yeh yeh dont you think its been a while and it has more or less has become a habit to blame our problems on RAW , MOSSAD & CIA ... ""there is no one conspiring if there was one some one should have been caught by now ""there is no proof except non stop silly rant . It pakistanis conspiring against each other MQM is dealing with AlQaida & Taliban threat in karachi because military , agencies and law enforcement are either not bothered or are ignoring this threat.



Karachi now provides an entire ‘infrastructure’ for terrorist organisations to flourish. The TTP, Taliban and al Qaeda, facing some pressure in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA, continue to pour into the port city, further damaging an already dwindling Pakistani economy. The city is already a safe haven for Islamist terrorists, and is evolving as a significant theatre of violence. Unless extremist networks are uprooted now, the ‘descent into anarchy’ that has been noted across Pakistan’s other provinces may well come to afflict the country’s commercial capital.

would you be willing to discuss my statements that you refute and ridicule in a systematic manner? You have asked for proofs. I have some proofs suporting my statement and some assertions that point to no other direction other than MQM being exactly what i have described them to be. If u are willing to discuss without mud flinging and soley based on facts or sensible rationale, i would be delighted to answer your questions in detail. agreed?

 

[alibaz]

Dr. Imran’s murder probe advances

LONDON: The investigations into the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s senior leader Dr. Imran Farooq has witnessed progress, two persons belonging to Karachi have also been interrogated by London police, Geo News reported Friday.

London police have been actively engaged in the investigation into the brutal assassination of Dr. Imran Farooq in London. The police have now made visits to three locations and deployed police at the store owned by Dr. Imran Farooq. The store has been closed and police vans are seen stationed outside it. A sign saying ‘The store is closed today’ hangs on the store’s door.

Sources told Geo News that London police have also investigated into the financial matters of Dr. Imran Farooq, particularly, in the wake of reports that Dr. Imran Farooq was having some financial difficulties before his murder and wanted to sell out his store which he bought in 2008.

http://www.geo.tv/10-29-2010/73581.htm

 

[waraich66]

Who is infact controlling MQM ? Raw or Musad or ---????

Why MQM leader Altaf is under UK Government protection????

Why majority of Mahajir still electing MQM candidates?????

Islam dont allow any division of muslims on basis of language ,race or color.

 

[alibaz]

Who is infact controlling MQM ? Raw or Musad or ---????

Why MQM leader Altaf is under UK Government protection????

Why majority of Mahajir still electing MQM candidates?????

Islam dont allow any division of muslims on basis of language ,race or color.

Sir it will be appreciated if you can enlighten us with your point of view