I like and admire the fact that MQM is the only successful party whose leadership has risen from the grass root level to the top. I also endorse the view of some prominet journalists like Nadeem Farooq Paracha, albeit with reservations, that MQM is a necessary counterforce to thwart remergence of Jamat-i-Islami in Karachi. At one hand, I like its relatively secular approach and its demonstrated commitment to denounce hardliners when everyone else was actually going for an appeasement policy which in reality would have merely strengthened them in the Northern part of Pakistan. At the onset I would like to acknowledge that I have very mixed feelings about MQM.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |