What is happening in Karachi?

Why can't they pin point at the exact problem?

Why is Karachi allowed to be destroyed like this. It is totally unprotected. As seen from three days some people have occupied vantage positions and are firing indiscriminately. Can't the police go there, catch them and bring them to justice? One can clearly see who is killing whom. The political leaders, governor Mr. Nisar Khoro don't seem to have a clue.

The guys like Haji Adeel and Shahi Syed who come from very far don't give a damn about Karachi and openly make racist comments and incite people to violence for their petty political gains. They have made their own area as Ilaqa Ghair - lawless area. And no lawless area can have development. And when you cannot have development you won't have jobs.

So they don't go to nearby Islamabad or Lahore because they are not allowed there but go straight to Karachi where the Karachiites do not stop them. The result is they manifest their lawlessness there. Their leaders say Weapons is their jewellery. Hathyar hamara zevar hai - Shahi Syed.

But the people of Karachi are shy of blaming the Pakhtun racist mindset while Pakhtun ANP leadership does not hesitate in making openly racist comments and allegations. They never talk of co-existence. Even if one family lives in a remote area in Sindh they will have a red flag of ANP hoisted. If they are so racist and do not want to mix with people of Karachi why do they come from so far and make life or Karachiites difficult?

Where are the law enforcement agencies? What are they getting paid for?

Islamabad should stop migration of 25,000 Pakhtoons on a daily basis to Karachi that is taking place since 2007. The city cannot take such an influx. It just doesn't have the water, food, sewage, roads, power and housing to support them. They go and occupy lands creating more problems. Who is going to please stop this lawlessness?

Is there any thing we can do besides praying?

Salman Taseer dead but the religious parties still reluctant to condemn...

Where will all this end?

See what Salman Taseer said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxvlLpSy4BI&NR=1

Absurd interpretations of a person's statements confuses young minds. Taseer did not say that Asia did this or that. He simply pleaded for a pardon which is quite legitimate. People like Sahebzada, Ansar Abbasi, Munawar Hasan, FazlurRahman, Asadullah Bhutto are reluctant to condemn even such blatant murders. Nay some are even justifying by giving excuses.

For God's sake stop it and it won't until the so called Islamic guys make excuses for killings one way or the other. Condemn all killings unequivocally. Sometimes blaming America and sometimes something else and becoming the political spokesmen of the devil will not help. Only Allah save Pakistan and the Muslim world.

See for yourself if he said any thing wrong. All he said was he was forwarding an appeal to the President who has the power to pardon or not. He did not even say if the judgement was wrong. He said it is harsh though. But does it call for his murder? No. Never.

I don't think he was advocating any blasphemy. Even if he was he should have been tried and sentenced by court. This man had no business to take law in his hand. Violence is not acceptable.
We lost a capable guy who are very very few any way in the country. Sad. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajioon. To Allah he belonged and to Allah he returned.

See this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12111831

http://www.awaztoday.com/playvideo.asp?pageId=12455

I have been watching the condemnations. The religious crowd has been conspicuous by its absence. It took a full 20 minutes for Hamid Mir to elicit a condemnation from Moulana Fazlurrahman. He was asked if he would condemn repeatedly but he kept beating around the bush giving different excuses and justifications until forced to he sort of conditionally condemned it.

If such people exist and exhort people to take law in their hands what do you expect? The other deviants Munawar Hasan etc. refused to comment. I did not see him on TV but I am told he sided with the killer. Did see though some Piracha of JI sort of condemning conditionally. One Sahebzada some religio not condemning but exulting same with professor Ibrahim of Peshawar. Brainless and pathetic. They have no idea the dangerous signals they are sending for the future generations and weak minds and uneducated so called mullas.

Like this, no one can have a difference of opinion in future. Even a difference of opinion will be seen as bravery. Height of ignorance indeed!

Sorry I know the leanings of JIs and an ex-JIs but couldn't help sharing this anguish. Why are the religious crowd so much anti-law? Fail to understand the machinations and justifications of terrorism. I am frankly disappointed at the religio crowd. I think they are equally culpable for creating this mindset. Can't the law take its course? Who gives the right to an individual to kill someone whatever the provocation supposed or real?

Salman Taseer, if he really said what he did or is it just a misunderstanding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxvlLpSy4BI&NR=1 could have been taken to court tried and if found really guilty punished as per the law. This cold blooded murder. No.

Criminals are not afraid of law enforcement authorities in Sindh...

What are these guys doing? Providing Law and Order I guess...

With such an impressive number of police officers one would imagine that people in their areas enjoy excellent law and order. One would expect that no body is looted on the way by persons on mobikes or even cars as it happens in Karachi, no mobiles or valuables are snatched and no body comes knocking on the door with weapons nor any body dare kidnap any one for ransom.

One expects the criminals to be scared to death of law and its enforcement. When one is afraid of the consequences one is afraid to do a crime. When no one is scared all hell breaks loose and that is what has happened in Sindh. So what are these guys doing here?

The way they enjoy life for supposedly providing security to the people is enviable. You see police officers going about in luxury Land Cruisers enjoying all the perks that a Government job provides. But are they doing any thing? Are they earning it? Do they deserve it? They can have all that if they are delivering. If not that guy sitting in the middle in this picture, chairing the meeting, must pull them up as a good commander or chief executive.

Their job is to provide law and order of the best kind. They are getting paid for it. Are they providing even the lowest level of security to the man on the street or at home, one wonders. My experience is entirely different in Karachi for instance. I have yet to find a person male or female in Karachi who does not have a story of woe, of theft, dacoity, hold up at gunpoint, being looted on the way, going to mosque or returning from it, going for a walk in the park or just doing any thing any where, going for shopping etc. etc. He or she is at huge risk. In front of a gun anybody is helpless.

No body is safe any where. Who is next no one knows. You just keep praying for safe return home. And any time you could have a knock at the door of men with guns. All the time you hear or read so and so has been kidnapped for ransom and what terrible consequences have befallen them? If you are a resident of Karachi or Sindh you will testify to every single word you are reading here. Is this what these gentlemen in uniform are being paid for? Yes Sir that is what they are giving to the people of Karachi and Sindh whose taxes are paying for their luxuries.

Even a lay man can think what all can be done. Rest later, time permitting.

Develop FATA and NWFP to help Karachi from exploding and bursting at the seams...

Mr. Haider Khan Hoti who failed to govern in NWFP yeilded to the terrorists instead of defeating them and made a deal with the devil, he ought to have resigned but didn't. They must develop their own areas to help Karachi not becoming another Ilaqa Ghair.

Ilaqa Ghair - The ungoverned area

Mass movement of population within the country it stretches resources creating tensions...

The City is bursting at the seams...

See how lawlessness creates problems for people...

When you ignore issues forever that affect people, the issues then confront you when you no longer can solve them. What is happening in Karachi now is the result of decades of ignoring the issues in FATA and NWFP. Government ignored law and order there for decades. It is called "Ilaqa Ghair"!. The result was there was no development in those areas with disastrous consequences for Karachi over a thousand miles away.

When resources are the same how do you cope with the influx of population...

There is joblessness in those ungoverned areas. What do the people do? They move out. Where do they go? Not to Islamabad or Lahore or Punjab nor to Quetta but straight to Karachi. Now if any city takes people at the rate of 10,000 to 100,000 (estimates vary) per day how can it cope with the resources? It is the same water, gas, electricity, sewage, road network, police and above all food. Water, electricity, roads, sewage, police is not increasing to cope with the influx of people from upcountry. The Federal Government and The Provincial Governments have lent a blind eye to this problem.

Infrasturcture does not increase with increase in population...

What happens when the infrastructure is remaining the same while population has exploded at

an alarming rate? The city bursts at the seams. Medical facilities, schools and other

infrastructure remain the same. What remains is canibalisation. There is a limit to the extent a city can take people. Something has to be done. Now.

Where is the extra electricity, water, sewage its...

Imagine how many police can you depute per 50,000 citizens for

law and order say. How do you give law and order? How do you provide for extra water? Already it is tankers that are providing drinking water in Karachi. You already know about the acute electricity problem. How can we cope for the extra electricity when there is already a huge problem. What about the roads? They get clogged that does not bode well from our economy.

Karachi is free for all they say while Punjab is for Punjabis and Sindhi for Sindhis, Baluchistan for Baluchis and NWFP for Pakhtoons...

And if these people come armed to the teeth what will be the feeling of those people already living in that area. Obviously they resent it. I have heard many times that they are not allowed to settle down in Punjab or Baluchistan but when it comes to Karachi it seems it is free for all. I was shocked to hear on TV yesterday that in Punjab there is no problem as all are Punjabis and similarly in Baluchistan and interior Sindh and the same person goes on to say that Karachi is different. It belongs to every one. Now that was very interesting because nobody does anything for Karachi. There was a complete draught of development untill recently.

Islamabad must stop un-necessary movement of population within Pakistan...

When outsiders settle down in any place in such large numbers they create tensions. Talibanisation or no Talibanisation the outsiders who have stormed into Karachi have created problems. Most dangerous is that they are all armed. How can citizens of any area take it when they are swarmed by people not exactly friendly and armed. I think Islamabad must ensure that people do not just swarm into Karachi to save our most important city in the Country unless you want to create one more Ilaqa Ghair. They will bring the same ideas and with arms.

Develop FATA and NWFP so that they go back home...

We are all Pakistanis and want to and must and do live with love and affection with our co-citizens. There are issues but the problems are not unsurmountable. The solution lies in having development plans for FATA, NWFP and all those places from where people are storming into other areas particularly Karachi. Give them industries and employment. For that law and order is the corner stone othewise who will invest? Start with excellent law and order.

Fight the ideology that has made matters so bad...

For law and order it is an ideology that has to be fought. That is the ideology of The Taliban which is again derived from The Wahabi doctrine of Najd. Fight the deology so that it does not muddle minds of our young minds. I see people shirk from recognising this issue and keep beating about the bush.

Government must act when there is mass movement of population from any area... lest it create econmic and social problems...

While Pakistan is for all citizens, it can create economic and social problems when there is mass movement from one area to another. Governements must immediately take notice and recognise why people are moving. The best example is when Taliban enter an area people start moving out as it happened in Swat and Buner. They moved because there was a problem. The moment Taliban move in, people move out. Government must immediately remove the cause of movement whatever it is. If the Government does not act in time it creates problems for future generations.

You don't give in like this Mr. President... You are encouraging the terrorists by not punishing them but rewarding them...

The Parliament has rewarded those who fought The State...

It is a terrible precedent. You see there are always views on any subject for or against. Civilised way is to sit down and talk within legal norms. Educated people do it. Educated nations do it. But these guys forced you to do it by knife at your throat. Where is democracy? It is fear Sir, fear. It is terror. Terror all over. Do the people want it? No. Never. Their views were never taken. There was no referendum. This was injustice on the innocent and lovely people of Swat.

The legisators and government could not govern and caved in. There was not even a formal debate on it. So much on our quality of legilators and our democracy. You have shattered the last hope Mr. President. It is all gone. You have condoned the blowing up of 300 schools. Jamath e Islami's Mr. Liaquath Baloch says only 174 schools were blown up. As if that is not enough. No body is apprehended and punished for the destruction deaths and murder - cold blooded murder.

Now it is only a matter of time before the entire country will be engulfed with fire. They are hard core terrorists. We have seen the so called Sharia in Saudi Arabia. Does one want to follow them? Now the prayer timings will change daily and the shops will close down regardless of the inconvenience to any body. If somebody dies for petrol because the station is closed for prayers, so be it .  This is their brand of Islam. We Pakistanis are more advanced and a civilised nation not like some bedouin in the deserts of Najd.

They will never un-arm themselves. Just not showing weapons in open is not un-arming. Sorry, me a law abiding person who believes and lives by rule of law will not take it Sir. I want Sharia as evolved over 1,400 years not the raw Najadi doctrine as is being trying to be imposed. This is all the handiwork of the hollow and the shallow who have no understanding of Islam. As the saying goes. Aqal badi ya bhains? They say obviously Bhains (Brain is bigger or buffalo, buffalo of course).

If it was through a democratic process I would have taken it. But not like this. Who are these partially literate people to dictate to The State and people of Pakistan? Was there a referendum? No. Every one is scared, nothing else. See the girl who was flogged in public, had not the courage to own it. The family knows the consequences. Every single person is terrified. On top of it the guys the so called religious people are supporting it for "peace". 

You were not supposed to sue for peace but defeat them Sir. They should have been forced to lay down their arms, had the luxury of a fair trial and sentenced as per law for killings and blowing up of schools and the people's infrastructure. Who is going to rebuild it? Who is going to pay for it. We, so that they blow it up again.

This is the worst thing that has happened in 60 years. Pakistan is already the only Muslim country to have Sharia as the source of law. Now why do we need to be taught law by these people? Are they any example to be followed? No. They are killers. We want the Aswae Hasna of our beloved prophet PBH. Did he kill any one? Never. These hard core terrorists can't even come close to demand sharia which is already there. They do not understand Islam nor the local and world issues.

It is just another way of usurping power, give dictates and satify their "ana" personal desire and glory. I would blame the media for acquiescing under pressure and not standing up to them. Channels like Waqth News, guys like Hamid Mir and that Waheed Hussain (of Waqth News) and the entire JI crowd the like who promote terrorism by siding with them one way or the other. 

Not criticising the terrorist is like aiding and abetting them with silence. And all those who sided the gun weilding terrorists of Lal Masjid must be held accountable. Instead of demonising the likes of Lal Masjid armed residents they glorify them. They are doing the same now. Allah only save Pakistan now. Amen. Summa Amen.

Zero Tolerence for Lawlessness and Corruption

Zero tolerance for Lawlessness and Corruption and 100% tolerance for Religious Differences. That is what we need while reverse is true sadly. Can we as a nation strive for this please?

Is he The Messiah we have been waiting for... the next hero! Can he deliver?

Great day for Pakistan! He has finally spoken of Character... Hope he is serious!
It was heartening although very surprising. The Prime Minister has finally spoken of character today. He said something the whole nation has been waiting since the new guys took up office to run the country. He spoke of people having character. He said public memory is not short as generally promoted but people do remember if there is a scandal or if a reputation is tainted.

If Mr. Geelani sets the pace of character in public office he will be a hero for Pakistan we have all been waiting for since the Qaed e Azam - the first and the last hero of Pakistan. Mr. Geelani would be only the second hero. The nation does not give hero status to Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Z.A.Bhutto, Zia Ul Haque, Benazir, Nawaz Sharif, Musharraf and Asif Zardari. The military men are discounted for being dictators and the politicians for their mismanagement and corruption allegations.

Will Mr. Geelani campaign for zero tolerance for corruption and lawlessness and 100% tolerance for religious differences? Unfortunately presently the reverse is true. There is 100% tolerance to corruption and lawlessness and zero tolerance to religious differences. Efficiency like inefficiency percolates from the top similarly if there is no corruption at the top you can hope to have lesser and lesser corruption at lower levels.

Now that The Prime Minister is setting the pace can we hope that our children will usher in an era where there is fairplay with justice, zero lawlessness and zero corruption. Can we expect that there will be no favouritism and people get opportunities based on merit. Can we hope that our natural resources are shared by most citizen not just a few, that there is more equitable distribution of national wealth. Will he say bye bye to regionalism, nepotism and favouritism?

Once this happens see how Pakistan develops. It will be the choicest destination of every one in the world. People will invest massively, industries will flourish and tourism will bring in foreign exchange which we can use not for importing consumer goods but technology that will make consumer goods, export and provide more and more employment all over Pakistan. I hope somehow my message reaches the Prime Minister and he is steadfast in what he said. Amen.