operation cleanup
in Ranchor Line ka Firangi Syed Ali aka wajahat writes:
Operation cleanup is now a forgotten event in the history of Karachi. It began on the onset of an army major being killed by the gangs of MQM. It was a flexing of political muscle that went too far and with BB's vengeance laden agenda and armies contempt of Muhajirism, Operation cleanup began.
operation cleanup what a misnomer...through the rangers the occupying army in collusion with beyzameer bhutto unleashed the might of the state terror on the innocent and unarmed civilians...mostly muhajirs...in sindh...while the rest of pakistanis played flute on their charpoys and prayer mats...in their failed attempt to curb the hooligans of seemingly fascist MQM...led by one time chicago cabby altaf hussain...living in self imposed exile in London, where he has reputedly acquired british nationality as well…his one time nemesis Bhutto also in exile presently...started off a APMSO (All Pakistan Muhajr Students Organisation in Karachi University and used by gen zina ul haq and ISI as a prop against beyzameer’s hold in sind province...having killed her father zina was wary of beyzameer’s power base...once the cat was let out of the bag or the pandora’s box was opened there was no return...APMSO developed in MQM (Mohajir Quomi Movement) and single handedly revolutionized Pakistani politics..its cadres belonging to lower middle class won seats in both the provincial and national assemblies...lessening the hold of the feudals and the establishment backed parties notably the jamaat e islami then a power horse in Karachi and sindh...
...back to operation cleanup...i think the officer in charge was general farhatullah babar...currently a PPP senator...under him a systematic holocaust was unleashed on muhajirs mainly in sindh province...students were picked up from schools and colleges, even from dining tables in homes in front of their families for questioning never to return alive...thousands killed in one of the biggest and least widely reported systematic massacre of a its citizens by any government....thousands died in such encounters...thousands still missing...not one person accused of this gross inhumanity has been brought to court...
...its earlier manifestos and articles and books on MQM that i have read suggest an alarming resemblance in attitude and philosophy to late g m syed's Jiaye Sindh movement...
...later the name was changed to Muttahida (United) before a began an unsuccessful foray into other provinces...making some headway in baluchistan and multan but not in the frontier and Punjab mainland...here the feudals thwarted its efforts...today the Muttahida is essentially back to its muhajir roots...some say a very fascist party...
...with his strong vote bank MQM is the third largest political party in Pakistan and currently in bed with its former victimizer...yes politics makes for strange bedfellows...
for my Indian readers: altaf hussain is karachi's bal thackeray: his MQM cadres are the most organized and disciplined group outside of the occupying army...relying on brute force and violence if threats and innuendos fail, to extract bhatta…ransom or forced illegal taxes...from unsuspecting citizens...some of it is spent back in running charitable clinics, dispensaries and in aid of orphans and widows by the khidmat e khalq committees...and some is siphoned off abroad...his party loyalists reportedly have to take an oath on their lives to do his bidding...his core vote bank still virtually intact from karachi to sindh interior like sukkur, hyderabad etc. ...and he flaunts it too...last year he asked some MNAs and MPAs to resign and in bye-elections his own replacements handily won...but despite his strong and intact vote bank he lives in the shadow of infamous ISI...not daring to return from self imposed exile...his paranoia of accountability...fears of facing the wrong end of the gun…since violence begets violence...keeps him in london from where he addresses his followers by long distance telephone speeches that sometimes runs into hours...)
Operation cleanup is now a forgotten event in the history of Karachi. It began on the onset of an army major being killed by the gangs of MQM. It was a flexing of political muscle that went too far and with BB's vengeance laden agenda and armies contempt of Muhajirism, Operation cleanup began.
operation cleanup what a misnomer...through the rangers the occupying army in collusion with beyzameer bhutto unleashed the might of the state terror on the innocent and unarmed civilians...mostly muhajirs...in sindh...while the rest of pakistanis played flute on their charpoys and prayer mats...in their failed attempt to curb the hooligans of seemingly fascist MQM...led by one time chicago cabby altaf hussain...living in self imposed exile in London, where he has reputedly acquired british nationality as well…his one time nemesis Bhutto also in exile presently...started off a APMSO (All Pakistan Muhajr Students Organisation in Karachi University and used by gen zina ul haq and ISI as a prop against beyzameer’s hold in sind province...having killed her father zina was wary of beyzameer’s power base...once the cat was let out of the bag or the pandora’s box was opened there was no return...APMSO developed in MQM (Mohajir Quomi Movement) and single handedly revolutionized Pakistani politics..its cadres belonging to lower middle class won seats in both the provincial and national assemblies...lessening the hold of the feudals and the establishment backed parties notably the jamaat e islami then a power horse in Karachi and sindh...
...back to operation cleanup...i think the officer in charge was general farhatullah babar...currently a PPP senator...under him a systematic holocaust was unleashed on muhajirs mainly in sindh province...students were picked up from schools and colleges, even from dining tables in homes in front of their families for questioning never to return alive...thousands killed in one of the biggest and least widely reported systematic massacre of a its citizens by any government....thousands died in such encounters...thousands still missing...not one person accused of this gross inhumanity has been brought to court...
...its earlier manifestos and articles and books on MQM that i have read suggest an alarming resemblance in attitude and philosophy to late g m syed's Jiaye Sindh movement...
...later the name was changed to Muttahida (United) before a began an unsuccessful foray into other provinces...making some headway in baluchistan and multan but not in the frontier and Punjab mainland...here the feudals thwarted its efforts...today the Muttahida is essentially back to its muhajir roots...some say a very fascist party...
...with his strong vote bank MQM is the third largest political party in Pakistan and currently in bed with its former victimizer...yes politics makes for strange bedfellows...
for my Indian readers: altaf hussain is karachi's bal thackeray: his MQM cadres are the most organized and disciplined group outside of the occupying army...relying on brute force and violence if threats and innuendos fail, to extract bhatta…ransom or forced illegal taxes...from unsuspecting citizens...some of it is spent back in running charitable clinics, dispensaries and in aid of orphans and widows by the khidmat e khalq committees...and some is siphoned off abroad...his party loyalists reportedly have to take an oath on their lives to do his bidding...his core vote bank still virtually intact from karachi to sindh interior like sukkur, hyderabad etc. ...and he flaunts it too...last year he asked some MNAs and MPAs to resign and in bye-elections his own replacements handily won...but despite his strong and intact vote bank he lives in the shadow of infamous ISI...not daring to return from self imposed exile...his paranoia of accountability...fears of facing the wrong end of the gun…since violence begets violence...keeps him in london from where he addresses his followers by long distance telephone speeches that sometimes runs into hours...)
posted by temporal at 9/15/2005
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