1. Peaceful protest against the senseless murder of Parween Rehman by NaMaloom people.
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#Karachi - pls join peaceful protest against murder of Parween Rehman - Sun, Mar17, 3-4 pm at Quaid's Mazar, Numaish, #Karachi - Shehri
2. Full transcript of the interview of Parween Rehman. One can easily guess why she was killed. I have read the whole transcript and I have found why people had respect for this committed social worker. People noted that she was utterly without ethnic bias and totally focused on her work. She was also fearless. She could not have survived for so long without being fearless.
If you want to learn about the land mafia business, then READ this transcript. Below I have selected choice sentences, but they can not be a substitute for the whole thing. She states that Land is the basis of much violence now. If you wish to understand the land mafia tactics in Karachi, READ this.
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haviZsultan, I have some idea about what you often talked about. This transcript touches on the Aligarh colony incident. The fearless lady seemed to know a lot.
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darkinsky, you wanted some proof of Qabza tactics of MQM, well here it is in plain black and white. Too bad you can not challenge the lady, she is in her grave now. For your benefit, I have highlighted some material related to MQM tactics and activity. Refute if you can, but please no gali galoch.
Parveen Rehman on Land, Politics and Violence in Karachi | Third Worldism
...there is continuous battle over various segments of land in Karachi, between various groups of people who I would not say are given sanction by the political parties, but who I would say as a strategy align themselves with political parties.
... various groups as a strategy align themselves with political parties. And when the political parties are seen battling, are seen against each other, so its just great time to shoot each other and put it up that some MQM has shot this one, ANP has shot this one. So this is like political conflict gives the ground for great killing and violence to settle your scores.
...The solution is very simple, because the political parties have to understand this that they’re being used.
...we did not know whether we would reach safely or go home safely. I myself would not tell my mother that I’m going to office and this is happening and that is happening, but we have faced ourselves violence.
...and it’s very sad about ANP, ANP has learnt all the negative tactics from the MQM. What they do is immediately when violence happens, they also have started making units, they send in the unit members of somewhere else to occupy the place.
... We do protect ourselves of course by resorting to a bigger thug. Not resorting to violence but getting help from a bigger thug. And knowing who is the bigger thug is very important.
...Local thugs... The point is that they’re all extortionists...When...there’s a breakdown of governance above, that you can get away with things. There’s a time that you know that you can get away with things...when there’s political harmony, these things are controlled.
...there’s a fixed amount that goes to the police.
... he was a Pathan unfortunately from ANP... So my colleague told him are you asking for bhatta?
... all these years of dictators supporting one political party to prop them up and all has completely finished the institutions.
...Once one of our team members became very violent and he started hitting somebody. And we didn’t understand why is he doing it to his colleagues, and then we found that he’s become a die heart supporter of the local MQM and the unit. So after 1-2 instances, we had to remove him. But when we removed him – oh my goodness –
the local MPA Qudoos, MPA Qudoos, then we got a letter from even Farooq Sattar. But Farooq Sattar was very gentle, he said please consider this if you can.
But Qudoos threatened, he rang me up and he threatened keh aap dekh lein ge keh aap niklein ge toh kesey. Then he threatened my colleague, he threatened the people who the guy had hit, he said hum dekh lein ge when you get out. So the point is sometimes we think that we have to play act. We are fearful from inside, but we have to play act.
...in Karachi, in 2006, the main political party, the MQM, I can say that because now it’s in the open: they demolished about 2 goths, they wanted to demolish 2 more, they could not – and they set up Altaf Nagar, over 2,500 acres of land. So that was one, because they were in power they could do it with Musharraf Government there.
... Illegal because there is no document. And the documents we have collected which they give to the land, somebody who’s purchased the land, has no signature - nothing. But it has the thappa of the City District. And it lies that it says that this land has been there since 1980.
...But once one understands that it’s not Pathan-Mohajir then one will focus on these mafias. Dekhein na, what also happened in 1985, the Bushra Zaidi thing, what was it? It was not ethnic. It was made to be ethnic.
...Because anything happens there will be attributed to two ethnic groups. You see the people who do the violence do it strategically. And they are the masterminds. And like I said, it’s very unfortunate that one ethnic group, ANP, has copied all the militant tactics of the MQM.
