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Karachi- the city of lights has turned ugly into the city of blights.

The city of Mai Kolachi is awash with the blood of innocent Pakistanis who have been sacrificed to a devil’s pact between various mafias and madmen politicians.

It is alarming that 900 Pakistanis have been killed in 2011 with 300 dying in July alone according to today’s report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. The situation is getting ever more grim, indeed my previous post on Karachi here bemoaned that Karachi and Karachites were hostage to a dirty turf war and paying the price for it in blood and this is true today too.

The pathetic and apathetic PPP government in the centre and in Sindh has spectacularly failed to stop the killings as has the MQM and ANP, all who enjoy the spoils of power in Sindh and all should resign for the daily death dance in Karachi has taken its toll on Pakistan. That said, I fear that with goons like Zulfiqar Mirza in the ascendancy, Karachi will remain hostage to the evil of various political parties who show their street (read killing) power, to the cost of peace in the metropolis.

If the killings were not bad enough, one is left angry at the endless empty sloganeering and tokenism used by Karachi’s main political parties. On the one hand, Karachites are left hostage to the dogs breakfast of uttering’s by Altaf Bhai who remains a bhai in the real sense, forever capable of showing his strength.

Meanwhile the PPP treats Karachi and Sindh as its own possession yet the party shirks from any responsibility in taking the province forward. Indeed the recent news that Bilawal Zardari will stand for elections in Lyari, is proof of the tokenism that in truth stands for nothing, given the Presidency and the PPP’s interests in Lyari are restricted to using its people to launch Bilawal into front-line politics. Lyari’s problems like those in Larkana will remain as they are as they are seen to be insignificant and unimportant.

All of Karachi has been treated in the same way by its politicians and this is why the city of lights has turned to the city of blights and will remain as so until the people of Karachi and Pakistan more widely reclaim their rights to live in peace from the politicians who steal power and never speak in their name.

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