Karachi carnage
November 30, 2008 KARACHITES might well feel the worst days of the city were back, as at least nine people were killed on its streets, with dozens injured, in firing incidents in the City. And meanwhile, what were the parties in the Sindh coalition doing? Apart from a visit to MQM headquarters at Nine Zero, Azizabad, they were holding joint press conferences in the forlorn hope of thus restoring peace. It didn't, and the firing went on at the same time as the MQM, the ANP and the PPP presented a joint public front to buttress their coalition government in Sindh. The firing was said to be communal in nature, and the coalition had been formed for the whole of Sindh keeping this in view, the MQM representing the Muhajirs, the PPP Sindhis, and the ANP Pakhtuns, Karachi being seen as the largest Pakhtun city in the world.
