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It looks like the honeymoon is over for MQM in Pakistan. The directors have placed the last nail in the MQM’s coffin. The aftermath of the London-Karachi rift is visible in MQM, as the party is going through a lengthy episode of transformation which exclusively brings demise to this influential political strength of the past. How a university-level student federation became Karachi’s most powerful political party is another case, but the way MQM ruled over the lives and assets of the Karachiites for a long time is really a matter which matters in making Karachi an unliveable and dangerous city of Pakistan. This is the outcome of 2013 Karachi operation by the law enforcers with the intention to make Karachi a safe and secure place for its dwellers. It would be too early to say that the operation is finally concluded because there still exist many terror elements excluding MQM which have been functioning in the megacity. Since last year or so, the city looks more peaceful th...

Altaf and his MQM were asked by the government to renounce its policy of press censorship, and publicly declare that it will not use threats and direct or indirect pressure to influence the print media. Altaf's MQM is perhaps the first "political" party in the world which clamped an across the board censorship on newspapers and kept breathing down the editor neck for more than four years. Hitler had said, "newspapers should not be allowed to ride popular will" Altaf and MQM followed this dictum to a tee. The code of censorship, which MQM designed under the able guidance of Altaf Hussain for the newspaper of Karachi, was impeccably complete. "Important" news items and photographs, their size, length and their exact placement on specified pages(mostly front page) was dictated to the city's newsrooms from Nine Zero, anything, which Altaf did not want published, could not see the light of the day. MQM's terrorism against the pre...

Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi has questioned the authorities over their inability to resolve the water shortage facing the country's biggest city, Karachi. The all-rounder, in a Twitter post, lamented that the country has been around for 70 years, with Karachi being the hub of all activities, however, the problems of the city, specifically the water shortage, remain to be solved. Governments have come into power and gone, yet the water crisis has not been solved and the residents continue to suffer, he added.  Shahid Afridi ✔ @SAfridiOfficial پاکستان کو بنے 70برس ہوگئے مگر کراچی شہر جو پاکستان کی شہ رگ کی حیثیت رکھتا ہے اس کےمسائل آج تک حل نہیں کئے جا سکے، سمندر کے کنارے ہونے کے باوجود اس شہر کے مکین پانی کے بوند بوند کو ترس رہے ہیں، حکومتیں آئیں اور گئیں مگر پانی کا مسئلہ ٹھیک نہیں کیا، آخر کب پانی کا مسئلہ حل ہوگا؟ 10:59 AM - Jun 25, 2018 7,789 2,391 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info an...

The time had finally come to make my way to Moscow to watch the FIFA World Cup. I had been watching the first eight days of the tournament on television at my home in Karachi. But now, it was time to make my dream come true: I was travelling to Moscow to watch the matches live, the tickets for which I had bought eight months ago. Essentials for travelling to this World Cup are your fan ID, match tickets, passport, $1,000 and personal belongings. Yes, it’s as simple as this. The fan ID is your visa to Russia. To get a fan ID you must buy a match ticket from fifa.com and then go to fan-id.rus to apply for it. The fan ID requirements are a clear passport-sized photo, a valid passport and match tickets. You can print your fan ID from the email they will send. Although the tickets to this World Cup are expensive compared to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, there are many free amenities for match goers. I will elaborate on them later. My flight from Karachi to Moscow was via Fly Dubai....

More than a dozen decrepit dogs splash into the Arabian Sea as the small wooden boat approaches. They know the fishermen's mission: bringing food and water for the canine population of one of Karachi's "dog islands". Fisherman Abdul Aziz feeds dogs on Dingy Island near Karachi — a sanctuary where the animals can avoid a cull on the city's feral dog population. The boat, powered by an old jeep engine, stops when the water is still waist-high, two fishermen jumping from it to wade ashore the low, barren, waste-covered beach, whose only inhabitants are barking their welcome. This picture taken on April 3, 2018 shows Pakistani fisherman Abdul Aziz giving food to dogs on Dingy Island. Photo: AFP The island, known as Dingy or Buddo, is one of dozens populated by dogs that line the shore south of the sprawling port megacity. Conservative figures estimate the feral dog population of Karachi could number up to 35,000. The figures spark a brutal culling each ...

MQM killed thousands of innocent persons including government functionaries. Its first major situational action against political rivals comes in Pakistan Steel Mills in 1990 when a number of men kidnapped from there. These men were taken to torture cells in Landhi and Korangi. Since then, torture and murder of LEA's officers, navy functionaries and a whole range of other professional and non-professional men and women has become a routine. Hundreds and thousands of innocent citizens were eliminated by the terrorists of MQM affair in Karachi. Among them are eminent citizens, politicians and law-enforcing personal, high government officials, writers like Salahuddin and finally the former Governor of Sindh, internationally renowned scholar and social worker Hakim Saeed. The method is simple. Terrorists chose a government servant and mark his residence. They watch his movements and his routines. Then, when orders are issued to "resurrect the movement and do his cas...

What Bahria University did is nothing new in the spectrum, but it is the latest contribution to the already alarming moral policing culture that exists in the country. PHOTO: GOOGLE MAPS “Men and women are to maintain a distance of at least six inches while sitting/standing together.” Imagine reading this somewhere, or hearing about it. What would your first reaction be? Perhaps something like, “Oh my God! The Taliban are back! They must have started enforcing their version of Shariah, and are probably planning to bring the days of terror back to the country!” If so,  relax ! This notice wasn’t issued by those fanatics, but by a renowned semi-government university, and is applicable only within its premises. It all began when a notice  was issued  by Bahria University’s (BU) director, requiring male and female students to keep a six-inch distance when sitting or standing near each other. This is not even the worst part though, as the notice also c...