In politics you don't judge people by their intentions. Because you have no way of finding them. They take into consideration all things before taking a stance. Even if the reason why MQM stood up is 0.00001% of real committment to the issue here, we should be satisfied. Others are simply afraid of being targets of taliban, getting called kaffirs by people like TSNM, and of getting accused by the govt of 'hurting Swat's peace'.
Why din't the other parties even bother to say a word about their apprehensions? Where gone their heroism that they displayed in fighting amongst themselves? At least MQM is doing what people want, who cares about their intentions when noone else is even showing a difference of opinion? Are we supposed to believe that there is really no difference of opinion on this bill because the whole NA voted for it?
All political parties are supposed to be greedy for power. Thats how the system should work.
But here the sole purpose of unanimous passing of the bill is to escape criticism from US and other governments. This at the cost of local people and opinions of Pakistanis.
This is outright blackmail of other parties by PPP. Even PPP has people who disagree with the party on this bill.
Thanks for the elaboration, but my views are;
First, MQM has never been hungry for Central Government, so they want power there and don't work for it. They don't do this because they know that they can never win as the Pakistnai nation will never let them to, because of all the atrocities, blackmailing and momopolization they have done in the past. People know it but they are afraid to talk.
No govt may it be from the PPP, PML or sny other dares to finger with MQM, because they know their strength in Karachi and if they will MQM their then a new regin of blood shed will start and as a result the Central Government would be questioned. No government wants to be bashed for failing to maintain law and order.
Mush did the same.
He came to power, and to keep the MQM shut it gave Sindh to them, they were happy and Mush was happy.
This is what i call blackmailing, they blackmail the governments and the government can't do much because of the obvious reasons of their strong hold within Karachi. If Karachi burns Pakistan burns!
Second, MQM is only strong in one city of Pakistan and that is Karachi, unfortunately Karachi is the backbone of Pakistan and being strong in Karachi have lots of implications which MQM has already exploited alot.
Third, Why didn't the other parties unagree with the peace deal?
Probably they think that it is better than usage of force, atleast for the time being (to which i don't agree-they should have been kicked out of the country and ended the BS)