Tuesday, June 19, 2012

MASSIVE KILLING IN KARACHI

It is a matter of serious concern that more than 750 people lost their lives in target killing in Karachi during the first few months of the current year. To be precise, the gangs are known to the Government and its security agencies and still the Government is unmoved to stop the senseless killing of innocent citizens in the streets of Karachi. More than ten people are being killed in a day in r3ecent days in Karachi and the police and the security agencies are not chasing the killers for unknown reasons. Recently, the people are kidnapped at gunpoint and taken hostage, tortured and killed and their bodies thrown to the public places. It is a serious trend that different communities are at war and they allowed escalating the tension to all areas of Karachi. Even, footballer players are not allow to undergo routine practice in playground and they are chased away by the armed thugs wielding guns at the public place and the state agencies are turning a blind eye to this trend. Similarly, the business activities had come to a complete halt following a murder of a MQM activist and in revenge dozens of people from a particularly killed spread scare in all parts of Karachi to suspend the routine business and trade. The only solution to the problems of killings and particularly ethnic cleansing of non-Mohajir communities is that all the armed groups should be disarmed and they be deprived of their weapons collected since the 1985 trouble in Nazimabad. MQM is the dominating group and it should be disarmed first. If the leaders do it voluntarily, it is better. Otherwise, the security agencies should do the job disarming the MQM gangs first and others will automatically surrender their weapons voluntarily, it is hoped. More than 90 percent terrorists and target killers caught by the police and other security agencies belonged to the MQM indicating the love for violence by the MQM top brass to keep Karachi and its people hostage at gun point. In the ultimate analysis, it is not in the interest of MQM and its Urdu speaking people to continue violence against the other communities as a final united front will demolish their military might. Thus, it is advised the MQM should disarm all its militants and gangs, mainly target killers first and show the way to others to disarm later. The Government in power should use its influence on MQM to disarm the armed gangs and target killers in the larger interest of peace in Karachi and rest of Pakistan.

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