Posts Tagged ‘MQM’
Power and fear
Last night I went to an unusual event in Karachi. Some of the wealthiest people of Pakistan sat next to the poorest, and when I say that, I mean it literally. Leaders of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party were invited to speak at the same stage as those of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the [...]
Filed under: MInority rights, Politics, Social Issues | 10 Comments
Tags: Citizens for Democracy, MQM, Pakistan, Pakistan blasphemy laws, PPP, Salmaan Taseer assasination, Salman Taseer
A time for governance
As Fatima Bhutto or @fbhutto said on Twitter on August 2, ‘And the president buggers off to Europe on a five star jaunt. Typical. Violence hits Karachi this evening too.’ I would not put it in exactly the same words, and am not a great fan of the author/aspiring Daughter-of-the-East, but it must be said [...]
Filed under: Environment, Foreign Policy, Politics, Social Issues | 9 Comments
Tags: ANP, Asif Ali Zardari, MQM, Pakistan, Pakistan floods
Who Will Fill The Void?
With our usual suspects, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), up to their regular antics, it looks like the political horizon is opening up for relatively untried candidates. As I read Mosharraf Zaidi’s new post, a version of which is in The News, I was filled with a familiar dread. Zaidi brings [...]
Filed under: Politics | 27 Comments
Tags: Islam, Jamaat-e-Islami, Karachi, MMA, MQM, Pakistan, PML-N, PPP, suicide attacks, terror
