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MQM and Imran Khan
Sir, I wish to state at the outset that I don't hold allegiance for any Pakistani political party or its leaders. There isn't much to choose between them as far as I am concerned. However, I was appalled to read the interviewer describes a political party's leadership as "insidious" and the party itself as Karachi based. (The Muslim News June 29)
I wonder if she would be similarly inclined to describe the Awami National Party
(ANP), Peshawar based, PMl (Noon), Lahore based and PPP.
No one can deny anyone's right to disagree with any thing or anyone else but to use such language is certainly uncalled for. We then wonder why people kill each other. Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is the country's 3rd largest party, holding a larger vote bank than Khan's tip and to describe it as only Karachi based must be insulting to multitude of its followers.
It was wrong of MQM to hold a rally on the same day as the demonstration against the dismissal of the judge. They should have anticipated trouble. Much bloodshed would have been avoided. But the question remains if others were simply the victims then who killed the MQM supporters? Did they turn the gun on themselves? Come to think of it why has a Judge going round the country holding public meetings. Don't you think it's odd? Should he not sit at home and wait for the courts verdict, and why are the "politicians" getting on his band wagon, in the best interest of the country? Don't you believe it.
In answer to the question, how do you know that Altaf Hussain made a phone call to 90 headquarters on the night of May 11, Khan replies - well a guy told him. What, just one guy? That really takes the biscuit"¦Imran took his word without any question, didn't bother to verify it? This is not to say that the guy was not telling the truth but surely Imran shouldn't have been content just to take his word for it. But then again if you want to believe something you will believe it anyway you do not need any proof.
At one point during the interview Imran says that the governor of Sind had said on the day before the trouble that anyone killed will be the responsibility of the chief justice. That proves that the MQM had already planned to kill some people. Does it Khan? Alerting people for the possible eventuality means planning the massacre, come off it. Then in answer to another question he says that they did not anticipate events to develop the way they did. Make up your mind Khan did they planned the massacre or didn't they?
Yours,
A B Qureshi, Luton
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