Who is minding a MQM store?
The author served as Executive Editor of The Express Tribune from 2009 to 2014
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM), even after carrying delinked itself from a London-based Altaf Hussain’s MQM, continues to protest about a blank workers blaming a law-enforcement agencies, generally a Rangers of carrying a palm in their disappearance. The Rangers on their partial have newly started tackling a explain by observant that these workers, in all probability, might have left subterraneous in response to a latest gauge from Altaf Hussain.
Another one of Altaf’s latest directives has asked Nadeem Nusrat to launch a new celebration comprising a ‘genuine’ MQM supporters. This does not sound such a fantastic idea. One recalls that until a Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) had not incited itself into a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf’s possibilities used to competition a national, provincial and internal polls as independents underneath a tag of ‘Haq Parasat’ with kite as their choosing symbol.
So, Altaf could go behind to this surreptitious reason on civic Sindh by putting adult his possibilities as independents in any destiny choosing underneath one tag and one pitch with his toughs ensuring how Altaf’s serf electorate would vote. A closer research of a arithmetic of a outcome of by-election reason on Sep 8 in Karachi’s PS-127 and a evident resources underneath that a choosing were conducted creates one consternation if Altaf has not already started giving unsentimental figure to his thought of rising a new celebration in civic Sindh. In a by-election, a PPP had bagged 21,187 votes, a MQM-Pakistan 15,553 and a PTI 5,880. The by-election day reports had pronounced Malir area had incited into a bridgehead as shortly as voting started. Unidentified group tore MQM-Pakistan posters during a Malir UC-11 polling station.
On a face of it, a outcome does give a sense that a MQM has started losing a belligerent in civic Sindh. But a closer demeanour during a outcome also raises a probability that a apparent could be misleading. The sum votes polled in a 2013 choosing were a small some-more than 110,000 as against to 60,000 polled in a by-election with a rest boycotting (?) — roughly a same series of votes polled by a MQM (59,811) in a 2013 poll. This creates one consternation if there was a managed protest of a by-election by a strange MQM electorate during a insistence of someone. And maybe this someone is nothing other than Altaf himself and that his toughs are still as effective as they have been all these 30-35 years. Perhaps all that these toughs had to do during a by-election was to yield an forgive for a low audience and they did that really successfully. And interestingly adequate they went around ripping out a posters of a MQM-Pakistan claimant and not those of his rivals!
The PPP claimant polled about 6,000 votes some-more than what a claimant had polled in a 2013 poll. In a initial flush of calculations one maybe reached a end that these were creatively MQM votes and went to a PPP claimant in a by-poll. But if one took into care a votes polled by a PTI claimant in a 2013 choosing (little some-more than 11,000) and those that he polled in a by-election (nearly 6,000) a probability that it could indeed have been a PTI’s votes that went to a PPP claimant and not those of a MQM’s (London?) would seem some-more probable. So, on a basement of a above comment one does not feel so certain about a reversals in a domestic fortunes of Altaf. And if what is being speculated is what accurately had happened in PS-127 by-election, afterwards a evident destiny does not reason most wish for a people of civic Sindh.
More importantly, a evident destiny of Farooq Sattar, Mustafa Kamal or any other Altaf insurgent harbouring care ambitions appears rather murky. It is probable that a infancy of electorate of PS-127 have signalled with their protest of a by-election, if it was a managed boycott, that they do not recognize any MQM reduction Altaf. This unfolding is maybe what seems to have emboldened Nadeem Nusrat, a London-based convener of a Rabita Committee, to explain a other day that Altaf Hussain was MQM and any other entity job itself MQM was cursed to be deserted by civic Sindh voters.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 1st, 2016.
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