Well we are back to Square one, the destructive interference of establishment and military in the national politics. Well your boys never learn, even from their own mistakes and it always comes to bite them later. The vicious cycle of supporting one against other and granting it extensive power for the time-being and later operating against it is the same everywhere. About time the people "who are paid to fight" leave the politics to the professionals instead of starting a new greater problem for the country every-time. Maybe had they not tried to get a political party under their control and started an operation against the residents of the city, either the party wouldn't have gone this route or the residents didn't turn to be such die-hard supporters because of the discrimination and marginalization they see or as I see it the unequal hate. MQM has criminal elements, there is no denial, AH needs to go, no arguments there again but the calls to ban the entire party, declaration of foreign agents and kill them all isn't rational. You are just giving the power hungry drunk another 10-20 years to rule in the city each time you make such calls. And why only MQM even? Are the others any good? Have they not stated the same under different tone?.
Those that forget to learn from history... isnt that how it goes??
Remember the urban myth of Yahya Khan remarking after the hung election in 1970 that the military would rule this country for another so years? Perhaps that wasnt a myth after all.
They never became beliefs; all of Pakistan's woes including sectarian, ethnic, linguistic, provincial, class fault lines are because of failures in governance and do not require an overly elaborate anthropological deconstruction of the Pakistani society to figure that out. Tell an illiterate and a semi literate man enough times that 'Punjabi, Pashtun, Baluch, Sindhi, Muhajir *insert your group of choice* khaaa giyaaa funds' to rationalize away your own incompetence and it'll stick especially if hes not going to go on a fact finding mission to corroborate whether the Sardar fighting the good-fight for me in Baluchistan didn't spend a penny of his personal wealth to open even a broken down dispensary in his area of influence or that Mr.Potato Head in the PM suite is dumber than a dodo and the economy not picking up has next to nothing to do with Khan's shenanigans !
Deliver on the 'governance' and give these prejudices a mere 10 years...subbb khattam ho jain geiiin !
If you understand that the latter is not exactly going to happen overnight, then you must also understand that the slogans of politicians need to be countered by intelligentsia; and when that does not happen. you have the issues that we face today.
In other words, when the educated are killed and the literate spew the internet with hate.. its time to kiss this country bye bye.