When I saw the two main Chaudhrys of Punjab, flanking the tiny troll, Farooq Sattar behind a row of mics, in a photo-op designed to show solidarity with a promise of their full co-operation in their areas of influence in Punjab (for reciprocal help in Sindh), I thought the PML-Q had lost their minds, altogether.
Let's cut the BS. MQM is not a political party. As opined by many professionals who have had the unenviable task of managing Karachi, MQM is a mafia. From extortion rackets, hits, shakedowns to assassinations of high profile targets, this outfit does it all. Every member of this organization has to come up with a certain amount of fixed cash to fill up it's coffers. Most of it's high profile leadership have multiple murder cases pending on them.
So it was a breath of fresh air to see Marvi Memon, MNA of PML-Q, take on the MQM rep, Sheikh Salahuddin (MNA) on the Javed Chaudhry show Kal-Tak. Marvi did everything, except pull out his awful hair plugs from his head.
She had some help from the PML-N rep on the show, Engr. Khurram Dastagir, but as usual, she took over the show and set the agenda. She basically laid out the facts:
(1) MQM is not a new party with a clean slate. It is a party with a long checkered history of willing to shake hands with anybody in power, as long as they get their share. (2) Mohajirs were welcomed with open arms by Sindhis in 1947, but their attitude quickly earned them the ire of the locals.(3) MQM has worked to create and fuel ethnic divides, to perpetuate it's rule through the divide-n-rule recipe. (4) MQM has tried to isolate Karachi & Hyderabad from the rest of Sindh, denying local population their rights and opportunities, by design (5) MQM rules by threats, fear and violence to curb dissent and force it's agenda. (6) MQM is lead by a man who is a UK national, who has been living in self-exile for decades, exhorting his followers through long-distance telephonic addresses.
The MQM agent tried his best to dodge, fake and juke these charges, peddling the usual MQM manjan. But he was out-witted and intellectually over-powered by the two PML stalwarts, who gave him no quarter and exposed the lies and hypocrisy.
Punjabi voters, it is said, are forgiving and easily manipulated by slick shysters with forked tongues. Let's hope they still retain the power of sight. See what MQM has brought to the City of Lights in 26 continuous years of being in power: death, destruction, darkness and despair. Is that the kind of future they wish to impart to the future generations of Punjab ?. Like any epidemic, MQM should be quarantined in Karachi and straightened-out here.
Marvi, has set the record straight. Much appreciated.
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