Wednesday 14 February 2018

My vote was for, now no more.



I still cannot forget the last local body elections in Karachi when almost every inked thumb was posted on social media to spread a message of devotion and loyalty after casting the votes during the polling session. I could read, “My vote is for Bhai” consecutively. There was a barrel of ethnic sentiments or fog of blindness.

I happened to write an article “Blind Following” having thought bitter of that tragedy. A kind of ethnic feeling tried to provoke me not to write or say the fact.  Whereupon I just had a look at the past to review and have a second glimpse at my mind’s inner rebellion.

From APMSO to MQM, then to two bodies: Mahajir QM and Muttahida QM, then it still confronted more divisions into PSP and MQM London to MQM Pakistan. The party is not off yet. What a journey of being split and keeping the national- Mahajirs and Karachi wala’s interest aside. Is this not a kind of a non-stop surprise when now two more splinter groups we have to suffer from. PIB versus Bahadarabad group. Lest they start clash, God forbid, but seems so through the history.

Since 1978 the origin of APMSO to 1984 founding of Mahajir Qaumi Movement it was we can say a literal display of sincerity and enthusiasm of getting the rights for Mahajirs and Urdu speakers. If they had kept up the same approach with awe for the country, this party would not be considered a mafia, foreign agent or unfaithful.

In the decade of 90s their two groups began the battle against each other. Haqiqi and MQM set the no-go areas and started disturbing and intervening the local people through checking them coming and going, interrogating as an Indian came across in Pakistan. The fierce dispute climbed up the highest steeple of humiliation and cruelty. Military took action against them and started surrounding them but the leadership of theirs was playing with them in the name of ethnicity, so they kept growing and extending. What a growing grilling-drilling era!

Had they not been divided into several groups on the basis of their own interests, Karachi would have been the biggest developed city. This cannot be called the irony of fate but tyranny.

Despite of the barbarism and increasing chaos and turmoil in the metropolitan and king city of Pakistan people went on believing them and electing them. They were not supposed to be known as blind followers. But after these all catastrophes and obvious disloyalty with the mother land, citizens would be known as the same if they do not change.



Who is going to showcase their thumb now? No one ought to. So-called innocent of this tyrant part of the land know better than the reader how far more extortions, ransoms, tortures and gangs’ activists have been on the rampage.           

This is high time. Choose a best among the worst but not among the bloody vultures-murderers. Change the people not the parties. Faces are same so what is outstanding? Amazing thing is people are still selfish or so-called innocent that they do not elevate a new one but actually a best one. They may be frightened but how long? by another 90s? 

Be intended, "My vote was for (them), but now no more."