Terrorism in Karachi on Hitler's Footsteps

"The conspiracy to spread terrorism in Karachi is a pure Hitlerian strategy which consists in occupying whatever belongs to the people, and then repeatedly dispel the impression that such an occupation has taken place; keep repeating that we are on the side of justice, and that the rest of the world consists of liars; and that so-and-so is opposed to our ideas because he is the enemy of our people. MQM ostensibly seeks to be a civil rights movement, but it conveniently ignores that a civil rights movement needs be civil first."

                Just as the world knows all about the nuclear holocaust which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, so does it know about Hitler's cruelty which left an entire nation paralyzed and divided. So when government says that the Karachi problem is the problem of the whole country, and that we are fighting the battle for Pakistan in Karachi, they seek to explain the simple logic that the wiles of Fascist Hitler brought destruction not only on the German nation, but resulted in the killing of 55 million people all over the world. Just as MQM has wrought havoc on not only the people of Karachi but the nation at large. Now we would take the opportunity to see it is really in bad taste to compare Altaf Hussain with Hitler, as some self-preferred terrorists feel. This would depend on the extent to which Altaf Hussain has followed the fascist declarations canonized by Hitler while founding his party. Hitler’s autobiography, "Mein Kampf’ was translated in Urdu by Maulvi Ibrahim All Chishti and printed by Lahore’s Lion Press in two volumes (1950 and 1955). In his foreword, the Maulvi stated three distinguishing features of The system which Hitler evolved: use of terrorism to achieve ones' aims, preference of racism over nationalism as the basic political creed, and use of people's power to gain political ascendancy and then discard them. Hitler power was achieved when they announced the Nazi party's manifesto at a public meeting in 1920. The main features of this manifesto which are given in the following, reflect on his personality and bent of mind more vividly than any other historical document. These are Nation’s destinies are charted by the minority, not the majority. Intellectuals are misguided individuals, suffering from scientific indigestion. Democracy brings anarchy and chaos. Our creed is true, and only this creed is true.

           Destruction fuelled by violent demagoguery is necessary. The leader requires disciples who oppress others while pretending to protect them from oppression. Illiterates and Naive youngsters are more suitable for the movement. The disciple should be trained to act, not ask questions we are not the slaves of public opinion, but its leaders Newspapers should not be allowed to ride popular will reject everything that the opponents utter minimum writing, maximum speaking Street trouble is the life blood of the movement Public demonstrations should not be peaceful Deserters should face death Kill big traitors before small ones Divide and rule.

                     A constitution cannot correct political weaknesses use force in preaching 80 million  Germans ought to grow to 250 million in 100 years 12,000 traitors should be put to sword we invite  everyone here to go over these points and takeout those, which haven't used by Altaf Hussain and his party in their operations at one time or another go briefly over the points once again. The negatives for a terrorist include democracy knowledge and learning newspapers children, public debate and peaceful activity. The positives are illiteracy, blind following, the infallible saint, lawlessness, street trouble, minority decisions, rejection of the opposition, and increase in population. 

         Review the performance of Karachi Municipal Corporation when MQM was in power, especially in the light of this strategy to have an inkling of what is this all about. For five years during 1987-92, MQM wielded total control over the billions of rupees of corporations’ funds. But what was the result? Nothing but more destruction and it couldn't be otherwise, because  if people's problems have been solved, who will come to listen to fire-spitting orator dilating on then put theme of deprivation and helplessness.

         The largest agency of urban development put at their disposal for five long years, and all we got in return was the same chain of accusations, complaints of repression of powerlessness, of being cheated; appeals to the people to use in revolt, listen to no one but the MQM as these Chaudhries, Waderas and Sardars were out to fleece every penny of what Appealing to the Army for justice while attacking the same institution belonged to Karachi’s people.

         While the civic problems went from bad to worse the "nation” was being fed on slogans like “death to Quaid's traitors "homeland or coffin”, "freedom or death” and just as the civic authority dissolved into a party fief meant for fund raising and ceremonial purposes, the specter of the leader rose as a symbol of Pirdom, sacrosanct and therefore in fallible, at the same time attacking every national institution, every sense of hope creaking at the hinges from internal tension, the party split into two in June 1992, one group identified as MQM Haqiqi and the other called MQM/Haqprast and now Muthaidda. Later a third group emerged under the leadership of the former party chairman, Azim Ahmed Tariq and a former member of the party's central cabinet, S.M Tariq. Both Muthaidda activists subsequently assassinated these leaders and their murder blamed on official agencies.

                The first to fall was Azim Ahmed Tariq who was eliminated by the terrorists of Altaf who were directly received order from their master through phone calls. But Muthaidda ostensibly mourned his death and held various official agencies as responsible for it. But confusion subsided when the former chief minister of Sindh, Muzaffar Hussain Shah, declared on the floor of Sindh Assembly, Azim Tariq was killed by Hashamuz Zafar and Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui both activists of Muthaidda S.M. Tariq’s murder came in the immediate aftermath of the arrest of Hashamuz Zafar by the law enforcing agencies. He was a close aide of Azim Triq, and a potential witness in his murder case. Muthaidda again held the agencies responsible for the murder, and mourned his death amidst touching statements. During 1992-98 almost 450 central leaders and supporter of MQM (H) were killed and eliminated by the terrorists of Altaf Hussain including Mansoor Ahmed Khan (Deputy General Secretary of MQM (H)). Sardar Ahmed (Finance Secretary of MQM (H) Rehan Umar Farooqi (Ex Member National Assembly) and many others.

        The target Killing; process of elimination of political rivals is still going on by the terrorists of MQM. This again reminds one of a Penguin books publication titled "Hiller’s Englishman" written by Francis Selwyn. He writes in his book that "just as the Mongols and the Asiatic pirates considered raping women as morality, robbing as the part of civilization and manslaughter as a favorite pastime, so did Hitler" and now we say so did Altaf Hussain as he is a true disciple of Hitler the cruelest manifestation of evil in this century.

      But no one can hide facts and that what is the real nature of these barefooted gun-totting terrorists? What ingredients are the made up of? What soil went into the making of such a beastly spate of fascism which has eclipsed Karachi’s sun in the wink of an eye?

Everyone knows that Altaf Hussain has shown himself to be an extremely impulsive man who can alter a “principled" stand sooner than one can say Jack Robinson, and often for no obvious reason, unless one takes into account his well known tendency for terrorism as a tool of political black mail. A look at the composition of his dialogue team over the last many years demonstrates this fact. Just because many of the members of this team could not contrive excuses for terrorism on the dialogue table, they were frequently discarded in favor of others and saw the replacement of M.A Jalil with Dr Farooq Sattar, followed by Senator Ashtiaq Azhar and more recently Ajmal Dehlavi and company. The same goes for MQM's assembly members, who are changed every time the elections are held so that they wouldn't take roots among the masses and carve out an exclusive niche for their own leadership.