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And the two main witnesses of that case were killed in police
custody 
So don't blame that case on anyone No one knows who is the real culprit
Unknown militants & KARACHI VOILENCE!
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And the two main witnesses of that case were killed in police
custody So don't blame that case on anyone No one knows who is the real culprit
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Zulfiqar mirza thinks that the only solution's to control the law and order situation is ban on pillion riding
and street crimes and target killings have actually increased after he banned pillion riding
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And the two main witnesses of that case were killed in police
So don't blame that case on anyone No one knows who is the real culprit
Whoever the culprit is, we have chosen to lock another skeleton in the cupboard. Blood will draw blood, violence breeds violence. We are victims of our own 'hypocrises'. Truth will always come out sooner or later, the more late the more vengence it will rain on the culprits.
i think its haqiqi and Ji
Due to Free and fair judiciaryamir khan is going to be bailed who is a leader of a banned organization and hundreds of murder cases on him were ignored now
I am afraid that Karachi going back towards its blood shed era
amir khan and afaq ahmed have been aquitted in many criminal cases filed against them.Altaf hussain is beginning to feel the heat because at any time these two can be released.
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All between MQM N PPP both are killing each other simple...
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Dont forget ANP, they have a strong presence in Karachi, infact in the outskirts of qasba colony and manghopir which is also their stronghold the fully armed people are sitting on the mountain tops, they also have a full backing of land mafia and drug mafia...mind you most of the mafias are being controled by the pashtuns.
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It think its also responsibilities of citizens to capture snap shots of ppl who act strangely ... and give it to police and authority figures ...
People need to get eductaed how to spot suspicious people ...
People need to get eductaed how to spot suspicious people ...
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Mqm and ppp coalition in sindh government i don't think Anp have any chance to even speak loudly...i can't even think of any1 else then MQM n ppp
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A very good article published in Dawn. It also shows how hypocritical politicians ( Imran Khan in this case) do not hesitate to use race card when it suits them.
An intolerant society By Huma Yusuf
Sunday, 07 Feb, 2010 Women weep for relatives, who were killed in the attack on a bus travelling to a religious procession, during their funeral in Karachi February 6, 2010. Photo by Reuters. World
Talks with the Taliban Talks with the Taliban Coming on the heels of the Ashura tragedy, the two blasts in Karachi on Friday are a reminder that sectarian violence poses one of the greatest threats to Pakistani society. Well over 4,000 people have been killed in the past two decades in sectarian involving primarily Shias and Sunnis violence.
Although no group has claimed responsibility for Fridays attacks, fingers are pointing at banned sectarian outfits such as Jundullah and Lashkar-i-Jhangvi. No doubt, radicalised militants are behind the kinds of anti-Shia attacks we saw on Dec 28, and again on Friday. But the time has come to put sectarian violence in a broader perspective.
Such violence can no longer be denounced as the work of fringe elements, an accident of history or politics. Instead, it must be recognised as a symptom of an increasingly intolerant and divisive society.
Indeed, intolerance is very much a characteristic of Pakistani society, a fact obvious to anyone who follows the media. Take, for instance, the highly sensationalised, racist jibe at Senator Babar Ghauri by Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan. Khan resorted to racism as a response to Ghauris accusation that he had an illegitimate child. But the ease with which he opted for the race card and the resounding applause that met his comment indicates that intolerance is thriving here.
Khans one-off insult cannot, however, compare with the consistent intolerance preached by other prominent personalities. Pakistani bloggers have made much of self-proclaimed strategic analyst Zaid Hamids Wake Up Pakistan campaign, which is explicitly anti-India. Although the campaign calls for an ideological revolution that restores the Muslim identity of the Pakistani state, Hamids dream of Radio Pakistan broadcasting from New Delhi has come to symbolise the no-compromises attitude of this particular movement.
Meanwhile, Pakistani grievances against US government policies such as escalating drone attacks and the use of private security firms may be justified. But anti-Americanism is slowly becoming conflated with anti-white sentiments: local websites, for example, publish photographs of any white person spotted here, identifying them as Blackwater or CIA agents.
Similarly, in the last year or so, public disdain for the Taliban has been expressed through discriminatory attitudes towards all Pushto-speaking people, who are being pushed out of jobs and increasingly find themselves the victims of arbitrary arrests and harassment.
Returning to a religious context, there is no shortage of examples of intolerance. Sunni-Shia sectarian violence seems to be on the rise in Karachi. Religious parties and the opposition PML-N hushed up calls for the repeal of the controversial blasphemy laws long identified as anti-minority after eight Christians were killed in Gojra last year. In September 2008, popular televangelist Aamir Liaquat declared that Islam sanctioned the murder of Ahmadis. Subsequently, at least two Ahmadis were murdered in cold blood. Need one go on?
The government has fuelled this widespread intolerance by employing vague terminology and heaping all the countrys problems on non-state actors and foreign elements. This language has perpetuated a belief in an amorphous, elusive enemy that is defined by one characteristic alone: not being Pakistani. This allows anyone who believes they can define the traits of a Pakistani (increasingly synonymous with Sunni Muslim) to fill in the vague outline of the enemy with that which is considered the other: Hindu, American, Israeli, Shia, Ahmadi, Christian, Sikh.
And this practice is no longer confined to political, extremist or media circles: the trend is proliferating among Pakistans urban, educated middle classes. Just this week, I heard of two incidents that betray the extent of xenophobia and religious intolerance in our society. After an intense medical examination, a friend was using yogic breathing to compose herself when another patient in the waiting room asked her contemptuously if she were Hindu.
Across town, incidentally in another hospital waiting room, an aunt decided to say her prayers. When she was done, a woman spitefully asked her if she belonged to the Ahmadi community. When she responded that she was not, the woman asked, how can you not be, if you pray with nail polish on?
In other words, we now live in a society in which any evidence of divergent beliefs or differing practices invites judgment. Rather than embrace diversity and pluralism, or respect peoples personal choices, we are becoming a people who label, despise and even attack that which is deemed to be variant.
A 2005 International Crisis Group report concluded sectarian conflict in Pakistan is the direct consequence of state policies of Islamisation and marginalisation of secular democratic forces. But, as the above examples suggest, sectarianism and other forms of intolerance have gone well beyond the political realm, and are now in danger of becoming social norms.
Indeed, a January 2010 report by the Legatum Institute, a London-based think tank, argues that Pakistani society will become more Islamist in the coming years. The report says that religious parties will not win more votes, but will exercise more soft power through participation in political coalitions. This power will manifest itself in a move towards Islamic values, which will be articulated in increasingly conservative and intolerant legislatures; for example, Sharia-compliant laws to govern the banking system, limited womens participation in the public sphere, public displays of piety, and the further marginalisation of minorities.
This means that the horrors Karachi saw on Friday, and that the country has grappled with for decades, will no longer be the extreme activities of militant groups they will be an expression of public sentiment. We can already see how incitement to hatred is a prerequisite for representing Pakistanis, while religiously, racially and ethnically motivated violence is becoming intertwined with nationalism.
If our politicians, public figures and media personalities do not make a concerted effort to preach and practise tolerance, Pakistan will continue to head down an explosive path.
huma.yusuf@gmail.com
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An intolerant society By Huma Yusuf
Sunday, 07 Feb, 2010 Women weep for relatives, who were killed in the attack on a bus travelling to a religious procession, during their funeral in Karachi February 6, 2010. Photo by Reuters. World
Talks with the Taliban Talks with the Taliban Coming on the heels of the Ashura tragedy, the two blasts in Karachi on Friday are a reminder that sectarian violence poses one of the greatest threats to Pakistani society. Well over 4,000 people have been killed in the past two decades in sectarian involving primarily Shias and Sunnis violence.
Although no group has claimed responsibility for Fridays attacks, fingers are pointing at banned sectarian outfits such as Jundullah and Lashkar-i-Jhangvi. No doubt, radicalised militants are behind the kinds of anti-Shia attacks we saw on Dec 28, and again on Friday. But the time has come to put sectarian violence in a broader perspective.
Such violence can no longer be denounced as the work of fringe elements, an accident of history or politics. Instead, it must be recognised as a symptom of an increasingly intolerant and divisive society.
Indeed, intolerance is very much a characteristic of Pakistani society, a fact obvious to anyone who follows the media. Take, for instance, the highly sensationalised, racist jibe at Senator Babar Ghauri by Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan. Khan resorted to racism as a response to Ghauris accusation that he had an illegitimate child. But the ease with which he opted for the race card and the resounding applause that met his comment indicates that intolerance is thriving here.
Khans one-off insult cannot, however, compare with the consistent intolerance preached by other prominent personalities. Pakistani bloggers have made much of self-proclaimed strategic analyst Zaid Hamids Wake Up Pakistan campaign, which is explicitly anti-India. Although the campaign calls for an ideological revolution that restores the Muslim identity of the Pakistani state, Hamids dream of Radio Pakistan broadcasting from New Delhi has come to symbolise the no-compromises attitude of this particular movement.
Meanwhile, Pakistani grievances against US government policies such as escalating drone attacks and the use of private security firms may be justified. But anti-Americanism is slowly becoming conflated with anti-white sentiments: local websites, for example, publish photographs of any white person spotted here, identifying them as Blackwater or CIA agents.
Similarly, in the last year or so, public disdain for the Taliban has been expressed through discriminatory attitudes towards all Pushto-speaking people, who are being pushed out of jobs and increasingly find themselves the victims of arbitrary arrests and harassment.
Returning to a religious context, there is no shortage of examples of intolerance. Sunni-Shia sectarian violence seems to be on the rise in Karachi. Religious parties and the opposition PML-N hushed up calls for the repeal of the controversial blasphemy laws long identified as anti-minority after eight Christians were killed in Gojra last year. In September 2008, popular televangelist Aamir Liaquat declared that Islam sanctioned the murder of Ahmadis. Subsequently, at least two Ahmadis were murdered in cold blood. Need one go on?
The government has fuelled this widespread intolerance by employing vague terminology and heaping all the countrys problems on non-state actors and foreign elements. This language has perpetuated a belief in an amorphous, elusive enemy that is defined by one characteristic alone: not being Pakistani. This allows anyone who believes they can define the traits of a Pakistani (increasingly synonymous with Sunni Muslim) to fill in the vague outline of the enemy with that which is considered the other: Hindu, American, Israeli, Shia, Ahmadi, Christian, Sikh.
And this practice is no longer confined to political, extremist or media circles: the trend is proliferating among Pakistans urban, educated middle classes. Just this week, I heard of two incidents that betray the extent of xenophobia and religious intolerance in our society. After an intense medical examination, a friend was using yogic breathing to compose herself when another patient in the waiting room asked her contemptuously if she were Hindu.
Across town, incidentally in another hospital waiting room, an aunt decided to say her prayers. When she was done, a woman spitefully asked her if she belonged to the Ahmadi community. When she responded that she was not, the woman asked, how can you not be, if you pray with nail polish on?
In other words, we now live in a society in which any evidence of divergent beliefs or differing practices invites judgment. Rather than embrace diversity and pluralism, or respect peoples personal choices, we are becoming a people who label, despise and even attack that which is deemed to be variant.
A 2005 International Crisis Group report concluded sectarian conflict in Pakistan is the direct consequence of state policies of Islamisation and marginalisation of secular democratic forces. But, as the above examples suggest, sectarianism and other forms of intolerance have gone well beyond the political realm, and are now in danger of becoming social norms.
Indeed, a January 2010 report by the Legatum Institute, a London-based think tank, argues that Pakistani society will become more Islamist in the coming years. The report says that religious parties will not win more votes, but will exercise more soft power through participation in political coalitions. This power will manifest itself in a move towards Islamic values, which will be articulated in increasingly conservative and intolerant legislatures; for example, Sharia-compliant laws to govern the banking system, limited womens participation in the public sphere, public displays of piety, and the further marginalisation of minorities.
This means that the horrors Karachi saw on Friday, and that the country has grappled with for decades, will no longer be the extreme activities of militant groups they will be an expression of public sentiment. We can already see how incitement to hatred is a prerequisite for representing Pakistanis, while religiously, racially and ethnically motivated violence is becoming intertwined with nationalism.
If our politicians, public figures and media personalities do not make a concerted effort to preach and practise tolerance, Pakistan will continue to head down an explosive path.
huma.yusuf@gmail.com
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"If our politicians, public figures and media personalities do not make a concerted effort to preach and practise tolerance, Pakistan will continue to head down an explosive path."
It goes further WRT effort. All those Pakistanis possessing the wit AND education have a responsibility to exercise their voice towards this end.
That includes here. I especially encourage those of the "think-tank" to provide as much personal commentary as they do insightful articles written by others. In fact, I'd suggest that those eloquent words of others be digested and regurgitated without attribution if editorials such as the above express your views.
Leadership starts at home and its a rare day when a battalion commander uses the words of others read from a text when standing before the troops. They don't want an op-ed. They want THEIR COMMANDER's words and emphasis.
Thanks.
It goes further WRT effort. All those Pakistanis possessing the wit AND education have a responsibility to exercise their voice towards this end.
That includes here. I especially encourage those of the "think-tank" to provide as much personal commentary as they do insightful articles written by others. In fact, I'd suggest that those eloquent words of others be digested and regurgitated without attribution if editorials such as the above express your views.
Leadership starts at home and its a rare day when a battalion commander uses the words of others read from a text when standing before the troops. They don't want an op-ed. They want THEIR COMMANDER's words and emphasis.
Thanks.
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Beautiful. Simply beautiful. Thanks a ton, sir.
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