AJK elections: MQM to participate in polls for two seats

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@Hmmm

“these people have followers in a city like karachi” – ever wondered why the city with highest literacy rate, supports a political representation with highest literacy rate?

I’d say – these people do not have major followers in any other city than Karachi – What a Shame! An indication of our literacy rate, and brain washed perception.Recommend

Hmmmmmm What a rabid joke !
Ever wondered why the most literate lot of Karachi and of Pakistan as well,time and again vote for a particular
party ?

Eat your heart out..It is highly unlikely that the political status quo of Karachi would take any twist in any near future, .

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@Usman Bhitai:
You are absolutely right. In fact every party should contest elections. The only parties who run away from elections are either the losers or fascists, terrorists who have no chance to win the elections and they want to come into power via the backdoor, or dictatorship which is their only chance.
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To Hmmmm!

u sowed ur favroutism to someone special. i don’t who but ur comment shows ur narrow mindness.
Just tell me is there any party in our country which faced an illegal Army operation for almost an decade? Actually people like u never accept educated and middle class people in politics.Recommend

@Hmmm:

Actually, people of Karachi or Urdu Speakings have always been known for their exceptional talent and qualifications,therefore,MQM always shows too much pride and arrogance due to its unqiue votebank.But that doesn’t mean that MQM is the reason due to which people of Karachi are more educated…Karachi has always been known as the City of Lights even before the formation of MQM.

I myself belong to an Urdu Speaking/Muhajir family and few of our relatives always vote for MQM,but the rest hate Altaf Hussain due to his crimes for the past 2 decades. Aitzaz Ahsan said abck in 2007 that Muhajir/Urdu Speaking community has always contributed so much for the progress of Pakistan and nobody can forget their role for all these years but Karachi witnessed its darkest days due to the actions of its own sons i.e. Altaf Hussain and his men. My dad supports Musharraf but he uses words and titles for Altaf which I cann’t even share here in the comments. And I support Imran Khan.

Now MQM talks about becoming a national party and denies that any of his men or leaders ever criticized Punjab or Punjabis….but there’s no smoke without fire,and they continue to have a specific coterie or category of people who brainwash the youth and masses of Karachi on the name of ethnicity,city and province.Recommend

One more thing,

MQM always claims to be the VERY FIRST and ONLY political party in Pakistan which doesn’t have any feudal landlord in its party and the sole force in the nation that criticizes and opposes feudalism…This is one of the greatest myths and absurd statements that one could heard from them.
There has been many activists,writers and columnists who condemned the role of establishment and feudal lords in Pakistan’s politics and they have been doing so for the past many decades.

One such parties are the Leftist/Socialist/Communist parties/organizations in pakistan such as Labour Party Pakistan and Communist Mazdoor Kisan Party…CMKP was formed my the merging of Communist Party of Pakistan which was formed in 1948 (i.e. about 30 years before the formation of APMSO) and Mazdoor Kissan Party..Plus what about Pakistani Marxist organization ‘The Struggle’?If one reads their manifestos,then will notice that they are also against fedual culture/system of Pakistan, and sound more realistic then Altaf Hussain’s soap operas. What about Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Habib Jalib who belonged to left-wing activism and communism?Recommend

@ All MQM lovers: first of all get the facts right – Karachi DOES NOT have the HIGHEST literacy rate among the cities in Pakistan. I myself live in Karachi and speak Urdu but this does not make me an MQM supporter. Moreover, has anyone of you ever seen an election day in Karachi? Your heads will bow in shame seeing the rigging. i do not say that people here in Karachi do not support MQM – they of course do – but the myth about the so called middle class party for middle class people is so flawed.

Go and see what the Babar Ghauris, Safwanullahs and Haseedb Khans of this world are doing – they represent anyone but the middle class. As a matter of fact, MQM’s strongest presence are in the areas which are considered on the lowest cadre when it comes to education. Landhi, Korangi, Liaqatabad, New Karachi and such areas are their strongholds. So, the idea of MQM – an educated middle class party is absolutely flawed.

And those who cry about the army operations should also know that it was MQM that brought violence in the otherwise peaceful city. And those who claim they are against the feudal and the landlords, should hang their heads in shame as this is the most ridiculous belief ever to be had. They have been in the government with almost everyone – with the very feudals and landlords that their Chief loves to bash every time he gets the chance to shower blessings on his poor followers!!!Recommend

@ Adil , guess what ! Do try to savvy some ground reality , PTI or Imran stands a very thin chance to win any electorate seat in Karachi , the reason is so obviousas the majority of Muhajirs simply considers Imran as another politican from outside , devoid of the meagre knowledge of the “problems / issues ” of theirs .

Just give me one good reason , why would we be interested in a sit-in DHARNA and not a for a DHARNA to stop target killings of innocent people at Banaras Chowk ?

Keep it simple .With out going into futile details and reasoning and mumbo jumbo et al .

So , my sincere condolence beforehand to you and kind .

@ Hmmm , the pun was intentional , right ? If no , C’est Super !!!!

What a flabbergasted notion ! Karachi’s Muhajirs has NOT the highest literacy rate ,
Maybe Changa m=Manga has , lolzzzzzzzzzzz.

Bottomline : Try to live with the truth , no matter what you or your kind of hate mongers
come up with , the Muhajirs ( minus you and kind ) will again vote for MQM .Recommend

@ Salman Orangiwala

The name of Imran Khan’s party is PAKSITAN Tehreek-e-Insaf….Notice the word ‘Pakistan’,it’s not Punjab,Punjabi or Pashtun…yes, he is not from Karachi but that doesn’t make him some ignorant or inferior person…and just like any proper party PTI will also have its candidates who will hail from the same city where they are running for the electorate seat. Imran Khan has supporters who belong to different regions/ethnicities of Pakistan including Karachi, so don’t worry since some Karachi based PTI candidate will be there to participate…you yourself have shown who’s the real hate monger by using words like outisder and so.

We are not afraid of any loss or failure,if PTI doesn’t get a seat from anywhere in Karachi then we are still fine with that as it(PTI) currently doesn’t have any seat anywhere in Pakistan….but the problem is people like you who would always make it Imran Khan vs Karachi/Muhajirs, Karachi vs Punjab, Karachi vs. KP,Muhajirs vs this,that and so on….As I mentioned earlier, Karachi was always known as the city of lights even before MQM’s formation and there….FYI, a prominent Muhajir named Justice (R) Wajihuddin Ahmed has also joined PTI last year….so I hope here we currently have a strong candidate from Karachi.

Thanks for your condolence BTW, and I have sympathy for you and kind who still live,think and speak from their myopic views….hope someday you start thinking in a broader way and rationally.Take careRecommend

@Pakistani:

Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Jehlum all have higher literacy rates than Karachi. GO and check the FBS website and look out for stats or foe easy navigation you may just go to wiki instead of crying fool without knowing the facts.Recommend