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...blames Iftikhar for the violence. "It only started after his arrival in Karachi. Before that the city was peaceful," thundered Altaf Hussain, the party leader who has been living in self-exile in London for the last 15 years, to his supporters over telephone...
...walk with Tawoos and his friend Altaf up a steep goat track toward Kamal Kote. They are carrying a sack of flour, 20 packets of biscuits, three loaves of bread, three eggplants, one cabbage, some tea, a bag of sugar, a box of candles and a few loose cigarettes. They are the relief effort. "I buried 27 people yesterday," says Tawoos. He is pale with lack of sleep and bitterness, and has to take frequent rests. He tells us there are 317 dead in Kamal Kote, a village of perhaps 1,000. His head is spinning with...
...still do, except nowadays the Mohajirs have earned wary respect by carrying out vicious ethnic warfare in Karachi throughout the early 1990s. The Pathans and the Sindhis retaliated but the Mohajirs matched them murder for murder, operating torture cells. Today Karachi is in the grips of the Mohajir godfather, Altaf Hussain, a fugitive in Britain charged with more than 100 counts of murder, sabotage and arson, who continues to rule the city from afar...
...with them. At dusk, villagers hear short bursts of gunfire. The next morning, a policeman reports that soldiers killed six "hard-core" militants during the search and a subsequent skirmish; three soldiers were injured. Four of the dead are later identified as Shawkat Ahmed, Mohammed Ashraf, Mohammed Sultan and Altaf Ahmed, all from the neighboring area of Rafiaabad. (The two others are not named.) District magistrate Sheikh Mohammed Hussain later admits the four were unarmed civilians, and promises $2,123 to each of their families as compensation and a job to a relative of one of the dead...
Catastrophes like this will continue to happen no matter how stringent the security measures are. Anyone can be the next victim. So just pray before takeoff and touchdown that everyone reaches his or her destination safely. That's all we people can do. ARSHAD ALTAF Karachi Via E-mail...